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Fall 2014 • Vol. XXXVI No. 4 • Poetry |

But Do Not Let Them Know You Were Alone When You Died

By Harold Schweizer

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Harold Schweizer is professor of English at Bucknell University. His volume of poems, The Book of Stones and Angels, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. His most recent book is On Waiting with Routledge.

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