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Contents | January 2002

In This Issue (Contributors)

More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly.


The Atlantic Monthly | January 2002
 
Wherever

by William Pitt Root
 
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Wherever
you are in the
world, you

could no longer
call him a boy,

the one who
squats, hovering

like a cloud above
his own reflection

in rain pooled by
a mound of debris

once his neighborhood
where a hand, not

his own, lies
half closed, as if

beckoning,
half open, as if

letting go.


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Copyright & copy; 2002 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved.
The Atlantic Monthly; January 2002; Wherever; Volume 289, No. 1; 40.


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