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About the execution of birds - 
wind wash where?

My love
is
a bird
of the past

DH 1961

Dear Mr. Wagstaff,

This last poem is a hard one with a terrible memory from my life.

In the past my letters have been characterized as "eccentric and ungrammatical."  Please try to bear with me.

When I began to paint regularly in 1958, I made hand made illusions in the spirit of Pollock, Gorky, Guston and other artists whose work I admired.  The lyric strain of this work