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Christopher Patton

Poetry

Fall 2011

Cairn

By Christopher Patton

Oldest it may be human sign. Not I but a stone man. To be read is older than to write at all, the hunter, the hunt- ed. As a sign […]

Poetry

Fall 2011

Th Friend

By Christopher Patton

The rain loves you alone to- gether down the garden hall- way. How clearly now cranes are called cranes in the bright con- struc- tion. Those flies too a sound […]