Three Stories & Ten Poems

<h2><SPAN name="AWY"> ALONG WITH YOUTH </SPAN></h2> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="line"> A porcupine skin, </div> <div class="line"> Stiff with bad tanning, </div> <div class="line"> It must have ended somewhere. </div> <div class="line"> Stuffed horned owl </div> <div class="line"> Pompous </div> <div class="line"> Yellow eyed; </div> <div class="line"> Chuck-wills-widow on a biassed twig </div> <div class="line"> Sooted with dust. </div> <div class="line"> Piles of old magazines, </div> <div class="line"> Drawers of boy’s letters </div> <div class="line"> And the line of love </div> <div class="line"> They must have ended somewhere. </div> <div class="line"> Yesterday’s Tribune is gone </div> <div class="line"> Along with youth </div> <div class="line"> And the canoe that went to pieces on the beach </div> <div class="line"> The year of the big storm </div> <div class="line"> When the hotel burned down </div> <div class="line"> At Seney, Michigan. </div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />