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Jessica Greenbaum

Poetry

Spring 1992

Blown-Away-Roof

By Jessica Greenbaum

The slight tambourine of a hoe against rocks accompanies the morning. My neighbor’s brown hat dips and rises in the sun as he clears off the long rectangle of dirt […]