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And rise

by Greg Huteson in the September 28, 2016 issue
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to circle the fourplex
hawks on a February
day. Or shims of hawks,
as v-ed as a second
grader’s drawing
on a periwinkle
rectangle of sky,
a scallop of sun.

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