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POETRY
Fall Issue
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Formation
Genre Cover by Peter Scacco
Oil Field
"you're breaking regulation, / but it's fine—just this one time."
Shauri Cherie
Aftermath
"comets / are coming and the shaking earth is spoiling for a fight"
David A. Goodrum
Momma, Too Young
"Did she ever hear / the Mourning Dove's cry / and answer back"
Abbilene Littell
Cardinal
"You are looking / for a reckoning, / but all I have / is this skin"
Katja Jackson