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Homecoming
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BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR 567 HOMECOMING from The Arrowhead Scholar (1978) When I came home the dogs barked, and you stepped out to the car through the dark trees in a hurry, without your coat; and when I followed you in you quickly built me a fire. Later, while you slept, I lay and watched the moon through our window and snowflakes on the glass until, when the cold came through, I whispered you awake that you might make me a fire more slowly than the last. KATHY from Little Chicago Suite (1971) Wearing a crown of curlers, she steps out on the trailer porch to feel the sun. The morning is reflected in her eyes: mountains coming blue, a trace of greening in the forest across the road; the road itself, tarblack and free. She has never heard of Emma Bovary. Relinquishing her brief parole, she sets the ironing board before the television, props the baby ...