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December

by Bob Arnold
Issue #28
Summer/Fall 1982
She’s supposed to be land clearing Heaping the brush to be burned in first snow But the pale yellow ghost of the tall Summer grasses she sweeps down Is instead caught in her hand And placed that way in a...

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