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Sense of Place

For weeks I saw cardboard boxes stacked outside the landing my neighborsdismantled eight years of living everything taped and labeleda two-bedroom bought on foreclosure paid off in overtime. We agree.

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Song for Guns & License

Paper mill town closed down. Sporting goods store the big draw.Hunters shop for camouflage,a new barrel gauge. Deer season. Six months here,I’m in a red chair with a red number,clutch a

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Missing

I tried to grab you chase the cat’s eye marble clouding your eyes so startled as I pulled you back from the edge of wherever you stoodthe boy who refused to carry a

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You Tell Me

The new senior housing development on MacArthur Blvd just below High Street used to be a haven for prostitutes walking within shouting distance of a run-down motel called The Seasons.

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Song of Tapachula

All he wanted was to stop burning –Dahlia Ravikovitch she stands behind a kettle ingera, poulet yassa, pupusa, plaintain, cabbage, pasta, cassava, yams, rice and beans food for migrants migrants

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