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Annotated by:
- Dittrich, Lisa
- Date of entry: Oct-21-1996
Summary
A very short poem, describing the increasingly circumscribed life of a dying woman in a nursing home, a woman who "is like a horse grazing / a hill pasture that someone makes / smaller by coming every night / to pull the fences in and in." The final lines are a moving plea for God to bring the woman to a gentle death.
Primary Source
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Publisher
Graywolf
Place Published
Saint Paul, Minn.
Edition
1996
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