Late August.(Poem)

From: The Southern Review | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Burns, Michael | Copyright information 
Late August 
 
   You know that trailer-trash blue 
   people bring themselves 
   to believe will brighten 
   trim in the summer heat? 
 
   I was painting over 
   a self-induced dose of it 
   in the side yard, my screen door 
   laid between a rusting red wagon 
   and a stack of wood, 
 
   when I heard something 
   fall from the sky, or out 
   of the trees, a distinct thump 
   on the ground behind me. 
 
   It was a dove, crumpled 
   to look the way you might 
   expect--gray w...

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