Track and she wouldn’t be a fitting mate for me, I should stay awayįrom her, they said, because I was on the college My junior high school teachers said, meaning The way I loved a girl who took me down an alleyĪnd let me press against her by the light I will walk the street embracing strangersīut I love this life because there is no other, With a love of life, and that on discharge I can sleep an hour or two before the light Holy Ghost Hospital for the Incurables, engravedĪbove a doorway flanked by columns of crumbling Sealed behind a window in my air-conditioned His literary influences include Robert Lowell and Jane Shore, with whom he studied at Harvard in the 1970s, as well as Richard Hugo and Philip Levine. He grew up in and around Boston, graduating from Charlestown High School and Harvard College. Scott Harney was a practicing poet who, aside from a few early publications in the Somerville Community News, did not publish during his lifetime, leaving a significant body of work to be discovered by readers after his death.
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