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Poetry: Robert L. Mahon (Issue Ten)

2020 February 20 by pdh513

The Closing The hands grasping the loan papers have long Broad fingers, farmer-strong, His father’s gift to him, along With the money that allowed the son To escape the farm. The elder had worked hard, was one Who had what is called luck. Why should the boy craft or husband When he could do . . . something else? So he went Dutifully to school, worked hard, was as … [Read more...] about Poetry: Robert L. Mahon (Issue Ten)

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Poetry: Douglas Stevens (Issue Ten)

2020 February 7 by pdh513

The Farm Youth’s Companion Death was in the cemetery of strangely named ancestors; in old farmers with abandoned cancers on their faces where cheekbones angled skin always to sun; in the family that slept through a house fire on the first cold night of fall; in the bloated circle of cows rounding a lightning-struck black oak; in the ancient, shrunken uncle spitting … [Read more...] about Poetry: Douglas Stevens (Issue Ten)

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