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Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry

Winter 1985

Looking for the Cat Grave

By Naomi Shihab Nye

          I Sunlight stripes a wall. Silent pumpkin sleeps in a river of sun. Some moments we feel we have spent our whole lives walking towards.           II Dry grass, the earth’s […]