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Poetry from NHI publications
| GRANDAD AT 5 A.M. |
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he would get up all grainy in the low light pull on boots and do a little shuffle to himself swallow some whiskey put a lamp on shove wood into the furnace feel the house start to be flannel settle into light before the others rose get a tune inside his head awhile and feel it in his fingers for the fiddle later on when one of them would play twangy chords on chipped keys of the old upright |
| SHEILA E. MURPHY |
| from New Hope International New Series #9 Next poem Previous poem |
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