A porcupine skin, br Stiff with bad tanning, br It must have ended somewhere. br Stuffed horned owl br Pompous br Yellow eyed; br Chuck-wills-widow on a biased twig br Sooted with dust. br Piles of old magazines, br Drawers of boy's letters br And the line of love br They must have ended somewhere. br Yesterday's Tribune is gone br Along with youth br And the canoe that went to pieces on the beach br The year of the big storm br When the hotel burned down br At Seney, Michigan.