Looking for a Friend in a Crowd of Arriving Passengers: A Sonnet

Not John Whalen.
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"Looking for a Friend in a Crowd of Arriving Passengers: A Sonnet" originally appeared in Summer 2012 (Vol. VI, No. 2).

Billy Collins's latest collection of poetry is The Rain in Portugal (Random House, 2016). He was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.