It darkens, brother,
and your crutch-tip grinds
the gravel the deer stepped delicately along
one breakfast, you were a kid.
Mother says after thirty,
decades clip by
‘and then you have the sum’
or spent it.
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It darkens, brother,
and your crutch-tip grinds
the gravel the deer stepped delicately along
one breakfast, you were a kid.
Mother says after thirty,
decades clip by
‘and then you have the sum’
or spent it.
Sign in to Granta.com.
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James Schuyler was born in Chicago in 1923. He received the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Morning of the Poem (Farar, Straus and Giroux). He died in Manhattan in 1991.
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