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Mark Turcotte

Poetry

Winter 2010

Gethsemane

By Mark Turcotte

In the still depths of my mother’s bedroom I sit on a low wooden stool before her feet, nose slightly stung with a faint scent of urine. At ninety-one, nearly […]

Poetry

Winter 2010

A Blur of Echoes

By Mark Turcotte

Let’s forget everything we know to be true about you and me. Let’s just say you were born that day. We’ll say you splashed into my hands on a salty […]