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Stations of the Mask

Get yours in bulk at Costco, friends bent over sewing machines, colors, adjustable ear loops, sequins, make a personal statement to VOTE, 3-ply, 4-ply, and N-95s, nostalgia for football and

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Vernon (from Pulp into Paper)

Perlson’s office was in Little Rock; the corporate office in Atlanta. But Vernon worked in the Arkansas town of Hentsbury around reclamation ponds. Chemicals from the paper mill leached into the

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Before Spring

after-birth drips from each petalgreen buds on branches leaves clenched in prayer the smell of wild carrots and onions.  

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Impeachment Hearings

Cranes battling each other in the sky, Samson and Goliath-sized shovels mauling each other’s words, an image that keeps floating in my head like an inflated ball at a football

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