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Skunk Hour

Robert Lowell

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1959
Pages
Pages 2

In a decaying seaside town a poet spies on lovers' cars, feels his own mind give way, and finds the only creature unbowed by the dark is a mother skunk raiding the garbage.

I myself am hell; nobody's here—
Skunk Hour, Robert Lowell

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