An anthology of Billy Collins

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An anthology of Billy Collins

• By Jaryl Cochran

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Billy Collins

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Billy Collins was proud

• Billy Collins is the Poet laureate for the United
  states

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Some of Billy Collinss Poems

• I ask you
• Neither Snow
• Dear Reader
• I go back to the house for a book
• Jazz and nature
• Picnic, lightning
• Elk River Falls

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Elk river falls

• is where the Elk River fallsfrom a rocky and
  considerable height,turning pale with
  trepidation at the lip(it seemed from where I
  stood below)before it is unbuckled from
  itselfand plummets, shredded, through the
  airinto the shadows of a frigid pool,so calm
  around the edges, a placefor water to recover
  from the shockof falling apart and coming back
  togetherbefore it picks up its song again,goes
  sliding around the massive rocksand past some
  islands overgrown with weedsthen flattens out
  and slips around a bendand continues on its
  winding course,according to this camper's
  guide,then joins the Clearwater at its northern
  fork,which must in time find the seawhere this
  and every other streammistakes the monster for
  itself,sings its name one final timethen feels
  the sudden sting of salt.