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Lollie Groth

Poetry

Summer 1990

The Dare

By Lollie Groth

Holding hands a hundred feet above the water that used to be Glen Canyon, inching toward the edge, and then we're off, out into that voluminous expanse of air, out […]

Poetry

Summer 1990

The Worry Dolls

By Lollie Groth

You can catch the bus on the east side of Cork in front of a small dairy. Be sure it's the green bus and that a child cranks open the […]

Poetry

Summer 1990

Acupuncture

By Lollie Groth

Down the Canyon to El Toro Road— hawks coasting overhead— past Leisure World and its myriad of gates, you come to a network of malls where magic and the ordinary […]