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Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	176
Issue	1
Published	2000-04-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

   If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
   so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

   that it made you want to throw
   open all the windows in the house

   and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
   indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

   a day when the cool brick paths
   and the garden bursting with peonies

   seemed so etched in sunlight
   that you felt like taking

   a hammer to the glass paperweight
   on the living room end table,

   releasing the inhabitants
   from their snow-covered cottage

   so they could walk out,
   holding hands and squinting...

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