A P R I L 2 0 0 0 ![]() DISTRESSED HAIKUby Donald Hall | |||||||||||||
![]() (For help, see a note about the audio.) Also by Donald Hall: When the Young Husband ... (1993) The Wedding Couple (1996)
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In a week or ten days the snow and ice will melt from Cemetery Road. I'm coming! Don't move! * Once again it is April. Today is the day we would have been married twenty-six years. I finished with April halfway through March. * You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead. * Will Hall ever write lines that do anything but whine and complain? In April the blue mountain revises from white to green. * The Boston Red Sox win a hundred straight games. The mouse rips the throat of the lion and the dead return.
Donald Hall has written many books, including The Old Life: New Poems(1996) and Without: Poems(1998). Copyright © 2000 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; April 2000; Distressed Haiku; Volume 285, No. 4; page 98. |
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