DPF / Alexie

For the eagles and ravens, from The Best American Poetry 1997, guest editor James Tate, series editor David Lehman.

from The Exaggeration of Despair / by Sherman Alexie

and this is my father, whose mother died of tuberculosis
not long after he was born, and so my father must hear coughing ghosts

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