Billy Collins (March 22, 1941- / New York City)

poet Billy Collins
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Shoveling Snow With Buddha

In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok
you would never see him doing such a thing,
tossing the dry snow over a mountain
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Billy Collins

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  • Ellie Daphne Van Stralen (3/22/2012 4:08:00 AM)

    multi-layered art of poetry

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  • Russell Guard (7/6/2008 3:34:00 PM)

    'he inside his generous pocket of silence'.....how Yeats would have loved that line
    and wished it was his own!

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