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Carla Moves about the Yard by Isa Pickett
March 14, 2023
The milk at the grocery store gets lonely when the clerk drives home A deer waits for his car
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Darren C. Demaree takes bold risks in his latest poetry collection, the luxury, challenging form and exploring the impact of the climate crisis with honesty and musicality.
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After a while, we were all breaking into our neighbors’ basements.
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