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A. Poulin, Jr.

A Poem

Summer 1987

A Momentary Order

By A. Poulin, Jr.

He’s spent this long hot morningin my neighbor’s yard. Where weedswere so thick their thin stalks hauledgrowing clumps of earth alongboth sides of walks and their rootsstretched the limits of […]

Poetry

Spring 1968

Angelic Orders

By A. Poulin, Jr.

            for Michael Margolin I’ve been seeing angels recently. I realize it’s a bit unusual, especially since no one believes in angels anymore, but it’s true. I have been seeing angels […]