This writer asked "What bleeds when metal breaks?" and "Can feathers eat me?" in "The Long Alley."  He wrote "At Woodlawn I heard the dead cry" at the opening of his "The Lost Son," while he lamented that "My friends become more Christian, year by year" at the end of his "The Sententious Man."  The title character of one of his poems "cast herself down into such a pure depth" when she was sad, and possessed "neckcurls" which were "limp and damp as tendrils."  Another of his poems is a villanelle which concludes "I learn
This writer asked "What bleeds when metal breaks?" and "Can feathers eat me?" in "The Long Alley."  He wrote "At Woodlawn I heard the dead cry" at the opening of his "The Lost Son," while he lamented that "My friends become more Christian, year by year" at the end of his "The Sententious Man."  The title character of one of his poems "cast herself down into such a pure depth" when she was sad, and possessed "neckcurls" which were "limp and damp as tendrils."  Another of his poems is a villanelle which concludes "I learn by going where I have to go."  FTP, name this American poet of "My Papa's Waltz," "Elegy for Jane," and "The Waking."
This writer asked "What bleeds when metal breaks?" and "Can feathers eat me?" in "The Long Alley."  
Theodore Roethke