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Wound

You laid into me like an iron hot and pressing against my bare opening. Tracy Strauss‘s poetry earned the 2005 Somerville Arts Council Literary Fellowship and has been published in The Hummingbird Review, Spoonful, and Ibbetson Street. Her collection, Between … Continue reading

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Seaman

Your voice is like the sea’s after a terrible storm lapping at my dunes churning forth this image comes crashing like a tidal wave engulfing me your invisible undertow’s got me by my legs, waist, my throat’s (I can’t breathe) … Continue reading

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