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             Theodore Deppe (1950-)

              The Russian Greatcoat

First Line:   While my children swim off the breakwater,

The above poem appeared in Deppe's 2002 collection
Cape Clear: New and Selected Poems. As such, it is
protected by copyright and should not be printed out or
stored in any permanent form without permission of the
copyright holder. It can also be found in:

  • Collins, Billy, ed. 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for
    Every Day
    . New York, NY: Random House, 2005.