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The Beginning of Poetry

Posted by Flavia Rocha on Sep 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

by Edward Hirsch

Railroad tracks split the campus in half
and at night you’d lie on your narrow cot
and listen to the lonely whistle
of a train crossing the prairie in the dark.

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