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Jack Driscoll

Poetry

Spring 1990

The Trap

By Jack Driscoll and Bill Meissner

When he stared into her eyes, he stuttered, knowing that whatever he said he'd imagined a thousand times and each of those thousand times, he couldn't find the words—not moon […]