A Trace of Old Road Work
Henry Taylor
There was a time this road was narrower,
the blind curve sharper. In due course the state
was moved by equal parts of fact and fear
 About HENRY TAYLOR Henry Taylor is the author of five volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Flying Change, and a collection of essays on contemporary poetry entitled Compulsory Figures. Since his retirement as professor of literature and codirector of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University, he lives in Bethesda, Maryland, when not traveling the country in his motor home. Also In VQR |
There was a time this road was narrower, the blind curve sharper. In due course the state was moved by equal parts of fact and fear |
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