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Russell Kincaid

A young man who dies in a hunting accident.

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The speaker of the poem, reflecting on his final spring and his own mortality, comparing himself to a ruined apple tree.
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Adam Weirauch’s emotional and psychological peak occurs when he abandons his principles, declaring “to hell wi…

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