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Hunger
The fox you lug over your shoulderin a dark sack
has cut a hole with a knife
and escaped.
The sudden lightness makes you think
you are stronger
as you walk back to your small cottage
through a forest that covers the world.
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"Hunger" from The Apple that Astonished Paris by Billy Collins. Copyright © 1998. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Arkansas Press.
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