Poetry of Issue #7        Page 13

APPRECIATIONS: FOUR POETS
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           (For Anthony Hecht)

Hecht inhabits the house
Of his poems, that delicately carved
And polished mansion,
Like a ghost who remembers
The weight of his blood.
I watch from the outside
His sharp-visaged silhouette
Scavenge among hard-edged
Squares of light for light.

  Jim Story