A Sunday dinner.(poem) From: Poetry | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: Bottoms, David | COPYRIGHT 1998 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.Copyright information

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Mosquito and tick

on that island of mud, centipede, fly, scorpion, lice,

all breed of bug, as she told it,

but mostly mosquitoes--yellow clouds smoking off

the mangrove swamps--and so with exhaustion and

hunger

the long hazy weakness of malaria.

Or if you were lucky

You only starved, dug in with your pound of captured rice

for the green flares on parachute...

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