...some hours later they were down at the railroad tracks s… - Anne Carson

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...some hours later they were down
at the railroad tracks
standing close together by the switch lights. The huge night moved overhead
scattering drops of itself.

Anne Carson

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse · August 1, 1999 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, and professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

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Alternative Names: Anne Patricia Carson

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You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?

And I said,
Where do I put it down?

Small, red, and upright he waited,
gripping his new bookbag tight
in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,
while the first snows of winter
floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced
all trace of the world.

We live by waters breaking out of the heart.

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