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Watermelon Kindness

Watermelon Kindness

David Donnell

(2010)

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from North of 60 Angels are aliens in spaceships. Angels descend and eagles soar. I am not an eagle. If I were an angel I would descend and give you of the bread of happiness the salt of anger & the message you already know better than I know: the moon & the lakes & the hills are forever. The much-anticipated Watermelon Kindness, David Donnell s first new collection in six years, comes from a part of the country that s somewhere between Archie Bunker and Dale Peck a contentious, but genial place. With more range than any other contemporary poet,