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The Butcher Bird single work   poetry   "When a car cracks open a bird, an opossum or cat,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 The Butcher Bird
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Notes

  • Epigraph: 'And when I chanced upon the sport / There was only a little hair left / And bones bleaching in the sunlight / Beautiful as architecture' - Richard Eberhart, 'The Groundhog'.

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