Blue Mesa Review Issue 40

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Welcome to Iowa: Letters to Carp and Other Immigrants Kartika Budhwar

To the Redwing Blackbird

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To Carp Dreaming of Dragonhood

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To Carp, Almost

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To the Female House Sparrow who is Nesting

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To the Settler

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To Carp: Alone and Impossible

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To the First Shiitake Mushroom Shipment in Town

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To the Twin Diatoms in my Microscope

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To the Emerald Ash Borer

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To Those who Miss the Ocean

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To Carp, who will not Settle

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To the Mothers of the Super Generation of Monarch Butterflies

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To the Emerald Ring that Lived in India

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Works Cited

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