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             James Dickey (1923-1997)

                The Heaven of Animals

First Line:   Here they are. The soft eyes open.

The Heaven of Animals is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found in:

  • Dickey, James. Drowning With Others. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962.