James Tate Poetry

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The Lost Pilot

‘The Lost Pilot’ is dedicated to James Tate’s father, who died on a bombing mission in World War II in 1944. He was a co-pilot of a B-17.

Your face did not rotย 

like the others--the co-pilot,ย 

for example, I saw him

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