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wishbone
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wishbone
the V-shaped bone above the breastbone in most birds consisting of the fused clavicles; furcula


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Stephen Mitchell's recent prize-winning collection, The Wishing Bone and Other Poems, is similarly centaurean.
The 2004 Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Children's Poetry goes to The Wishing Bone and Other Poems (Candlewick) by Stephen Mitchell, illustrated by Tom Pohrt.
In "The Wishing Bone" the speaker happens upon a wishing bone, and wishes things both imaginable and not.
 
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