Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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I REMEMBER the first time I read "The Fish." I was in ninth grade at a new school, very timid and very scared, and I knew nothing about poetry. My favorite poem was "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which my father recited to us frequently...
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
It baffled me; it seemed like a story. It was so matter-of-fact that I couldn't quite believe it was poetry. But it went on, about the skin that "hung in strips/like ancient wallpaper," and about the eyes with "irises backed and packed/with tarnished tinfoil," and then about...
a five-haired beard of wisdom