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Goodbye,
you who are, for me, the postmarks again
of shattered towns—Xenia, Burnt Cabins,
Hornell—
their loneliness
given away in poems, only their solitude kept.
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Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students (l. 32–36). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.
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