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The Children of the Plain Charles Wright (bio) Small they are, and rudderless.They wander in the hot places and touch their burn marks from time to time.You've seen them, avoided them,Watching the birds circle over them,Their blood full of ashes, city boys lost in the sun. Their eyelids, it happens, are weighed down by birds, small birdsAnd colorless, who lead them beside the dry waters.They've become the invisible ones,Their footprints like tiny monumentsIn the ever-erasing sands, the ever-erasing sands. [End Page 120] Charles Wright Charles Wright grew up mostly in Oak Ridge and Kingsport in East Tennessee and went on to a distinguished academic career primarily at the University of Virginia. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his collection, Black Zodiac in 1998 and the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music/Selected Early Poems as well as legions of other awards for his more than twenty poetry books. His most recent release is Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 2011 Berea College
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