Tom Clark is an American editor, biographer and poet. He was born in Chicago in 1941 and attended the University of Michigan. Clark won the Hopwood Award for Poetry in 1968. His poem Fidelity appears in the 2010 version of the BAP. Fidelity describes the loyalty he has to past friends that he won’t see…
This poem does not have a publication date but first appeared in London review books. Three tidbits that seem relevant in this poem. “What do you know about dark clouds? Ponds full of fallen leaves?” “Flapping your wings from tree to tree and carrying on like a crow” “Old model cars rusting in the driveway”…
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