A. M. Klein

Abraham Moses Klein (14 February 1909 – 20 August 1972) was a Canadian author. Best known for his poetry, Klein also wrote a number of essays and short stories.

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• Where are the braves, the faces like autumn fruit,
  who stared at the child from the coloured frontispiece?
  • Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)

• And my tears, too, have stained this heirloomed ground,
  When reading in these treatises some weird
  Miracle, I turned a leaf and found
  A white hair fallen from my father's beard.
  • Heirloom (1982)

• This is a grassy ghetto, and no home.
  • Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)

• For the tourist's
  brown pennies scattered at the old church door,
  the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust.
  • Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)

 * The animals pale, the shine of the fur is lost,
   bleached are their living bones.
 About them watch 
as through a mist, the pious prosperous ghosts.

• • Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)

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