'Call and Answer' an excerpt

February 28, 2008 at 1:20AM

Posted on Bly's website, www.robertbly.com

How come we've

listened to the great

criers--Neruda,/Akhmatova, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass--and now/ We're silent as sparrows in the little bushes?

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