William Dewitt Snodgrass

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    I taught myself to name my name,
    To bark back, loosen love and crying;
    To ease my woman so she came,
    To ease an old man who was dying.
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    I taught myself to name my name,
    To bark back, loosen love and crying;
    To ease my woman so she came,
    To ease an old man who was dying.
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    in darkness and in hedges
    I sang my sour tone
    and all my love was howling
    conspicuously alone.
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)