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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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| Frank Bidart |
Frank Bidart was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1939. He is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Star Dust. In 2007, he was awarded the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry...
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by Frank Bidart |
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You know that it is there, lair
where the bear ceases
for a time even to exist.
Crawl in. You have at last killed
enough and eaten enough to be fat
enough to cease for a time to exist.
Crawl in. It takes talent to live at night, and scorning
others you had that talent, but now you sniff
the season when you must cease to exist.
Crawl in. Whatever for good or ill
grows within you needs
you for a time to cease to exist.
It is not raining inside
tonight. You know that it is there. Crawl in.
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Copyright © 2005 by Frank Bidart. From Star Dust. Reprinted with permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. |
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