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by William H. Matchett
Issue #28
Summer/Fall 1982
Ron’s eager chainsaw and the firs falling combined their uproar with such startling silences there was no sense pretending to work at my desk. Granting the need, but unwilling to watch, I freed up all six culverts instead, clogged since...

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