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W. D. Snodgrass on Mother's Day

1926–2009 United States

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I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.

In darkness and in hedges
I sang my sour tone
and all my love was howling
conspicuously alone.

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.

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