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as good poems should be

and joined the West India Regiment as a bandsman

hear and learn”

the ghosts of hard-drinking poets

Keshiki 6: At the Edge of the Wood Evangeline Patterson and laugh-out-loud observational skills thatWhen his wife returns to her parents house to have their second child, an unnamed narrator and his son are left to manage by themselves. Instead of absence, what the father and son begin to notice is a strange noise opening up between them, reverberating through their home, their television set, and the books they read at night. The wood outside their home hums with it, too: leaves fall from branches which are already naked, trees wriggle when walked