Issue 14: Spring 2019

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You are an island

Pat Richerson

A rush of blood to the head and the sound of faraway trumpets tooting while the dew falls from the pines, coffee-steam rising in the green air

reveille yellow

I want to go where the moss grows up the soggy side of a stump and you can smell the smell of rain there in that place and the branches of many trees protect you

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