Best Poems from "The Country Between Us" by Carolyn Forche
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EXPATRIATE
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OURSELVES OR NOTHING
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THE COLONEL
"The colonel returned with a sack used to bring groceries home. He spilled many human ears on the table... There is no other way to say this. He took one of them in his hands, shook it in our faces, dropped it into a water glass. It came alive there."
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ON RETURNING TO DETROIT
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5.
JOSEPH
"Now this feel of knife for fish,/ of bullet for something racing through/ the darkness, your voice/ slung on the wires that lapse/ scalloping in the cold length/ of the country between us."
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MESSAGE
"... with a belief that became/ but small light/ in the breadth of time where we began/ among each other, where we lived/ in the hour farthest from God."
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7.
SELECTIVE SERVICE
"There is no list long enough/ for a selective service card shriveling/ under a match, the prison that comes of it,/ a flag in the wind eaten from its pole/ and boys sent back in trash bags."
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8.
THE VISITOR
"There is nothing one man will not do to another."
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9.
AS CHILDREN TOGETHER
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10.
REUNION
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