William Dewitt Snodgrass

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    I happened to find
    Your picture. That picture. I stopped there cold,
    Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his yard
    Who has turned up a severed hand.
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    You still whispered you would not die.
    Yet in the nights I heard you cry
    Like a whipped child;
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    After experience taught me that all the ordinary
    Surroundings of social life are futile and vain;
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)