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Jan Bailey-Wofford

Poetry

Autumn 1988

Outliving My Son

By Jan Bailey-Wofford

For you who preferred order to everything, slipping down at midnight to whisper that the guppy had babies and we are up constructing a divider so she can’t eat them, […]

Poetry

Autumn 1988

Balm

By Jan Bailey-Wofford

Take an autumn walk, a man and a woman stepping their points along the path, attempting balance, ignoring the small wind rising in their breath. Take one slipper of witchweed, […]