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Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

Nature’s Nature

Mar/Apr 2021

Pigeon Slippers

By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

A silent film’s where Prada gets the headband idea from maybe — now everyone’s temples are draped. Thinking their penny thoughts. If you can call it an idea. An idea is […]

Poetry

Sept/Oct 2016

Discoveries

By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

—Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), natural scientist, man of letters 1 Vexed by a full bladder, halted & hoping that urine would prattle on eventually, & this line of talk and […]