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Many surprises here for me, Nic. It’s honestly like hearing someone else’s poem, which is a huge gift to me as an author. Thank you!
Thanks for defining a new type of poem, Dave … enjoyed the descriptive window, the landscape of the words, the final hiss.
Glad you liked that, Christine. Nic certainly did well by pairing our two poems, I thought. Listening to her read mine, and then listening to your very interesting poem right after it, made me get up from my desk and go for a walk in the woods — and the woods were a-rustle. A dry high had just blown in.
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