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A Child’s Drawing, 1941

A woman ladder leans

with her two-year-old boy in her arms.

Her arms & legs & hands & feet

are thin as crayons.

The man ladder

is holding his glass of bourbon,

he is coming out of the child’s drawing

in his old open pajamas —

he’s in the war. The sky

is blackest crayon-canyon.

When does he leave again? When he leaves,

I leave. I like that river the sky.