The Blue Mountain Review Issue 17

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POETRY

Jeremy Ray Jewell

The South Disparate experience of shared difference The hand that will not make a fist Fingers never separate, outstretched in invitation and request, but devoid of palm; feral fingers painting evocative terrains, tones and foodstuffs. My mother. Your mother. Our asunderness. Motherless children have a hard time.

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