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Christopher Columbus returns to Hispaniola. (Columbus In La Isabela).(Poem)

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| November 01, 2001 | Newmann, Kate | COPYRIGHT 2001 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
   It castrates a man 
   to be where he is not. 
   And two years almost too long 
   in limbo to, fight your way 
   back into heaven, onto earth. 
   All that time, while he had 
   drowned in Spain's best wine 
   and glutted on the food of night, 
   he'd been looking back through eyes 
   at the sun on ...

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