Lake Shore

“The cliché is your enemy.” –from a handbook on writing
By Billy Collins
Poetry · From the July/August 2004 magazine
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wings tucked in,
gripping the rough bark,
eyes beady with determination,

his red helmet on
and his metal lunch pail
hanging from a nearby branch.
Billy Collins, the author of seven collections of poetry, proudly claims Canadian origins as his mother was born and raised in Orillia, Ontario. A former United States poet laureate, he is serving as the poet laureate of New York State until 2006.
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