Collecting the Cranes   Wood River, Nebraska   They piled the bodies, the frozen dead bodies, caked with clear ice, crusted and cracking in the sun, piled them by the thousands like feathered cordwood on wagons, trailers, stiff legs straightened behind, red-capped heads beak-first, fore.   The too-warm March rain, steady all the dun-deep day, […]

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