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Article: THE DOE.(Brief Article)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Modern Poetry Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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What does it matter
what I was thinking
when I aimed at a quivering branch
and braced my whole body
for the kick of that Browning .410?
All I could do was watch
the wet-velvet leg of something alive
sliding from the spattered white haunches
of the thing that lay dead on the snow.
All I could do was wait
when my father laid a hand on her belly,
unsnapped the strap
of the scabbard that hung from his belt,
then opened her pelt with a jerk:
a steaming blue hose spilling out,
a sopping pouch like a red jelly-fish,
and a leathery knot that he worked
out of the ribs in his fist--
lifting his big hands from ...
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