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NOVEMBER.

Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	173
Issue	2
Published	1998-12-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

   After three days of steady rain--
   over two inches said the radio--
   I follow the example of monks
   who write by a window with sunlight on their page.

   Five times this morning,
   I loaded a wheelbarrow with wood
   and steered it down the hill to the house,
   and later I will cut down the dead garden

   with a clippers and haul the soft pulp
   to a grave in the woods.
   But now there is only my page
   and the sun upon it like a poem

   that I am covering with another poem
   and the dog asleep on the tiles,
   her head in her paws
   her hind legs splayed out like...

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