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When Emily's
deathly fly calls to her in
a tiny, pleading voice—
when Robert's
snowy woods glow with
an unearthly light—
when Walt's
celebratory song becomes a
post-apocalyptic dirge—
when Allen's
rebel howl bares sharp canines
beneath the Moloch moon—
when William Carlos'
red wheelbarrow transforms
in the lethal rain—
then the course prospectus
for American Poetry 101
will prove stranger than
anything Mr. Wells
could have ever
imagined.