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Elizabeth Smither

Poetry

Summer 2002

Pieces of Eight

By Elizabeth Smither

So often treasure is tiny coins sayings with a petit range hardly worth recording. Break down a big task into bits like food chewed slowly. Be constant to a tiny […]

Poetry

Summer 2002

Late Summer Dew

By Elizabeth Smither

Some measure whose meaning we defer something passing between sky and grass like a hand pressing lightly on a head of hair some love or liking daily growing more definite […]