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Debra Bruce

Poetry

Spring 1992

What Wind Will Do

By Debra Bruce

I My father knows what wind will do. He swears he never knew before. He never dreamed one gust could break his hundred-year-old oak in two. Until a sound like […]

Poetry

Spring 1992

Two Couples

By Debra Bruce

The mother throws her voice in loops, up high, above the baby’s head, now brings it down, it swoops and swoops; she scoops him up and off to bed, now […]