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Marsha de la O

Nature's (Human) Nature

May/June 2018

A Grove of Trees

By Marsha de la O

The old women knew the men were police before I did, waiting for a bus when Vice surrounded me all dressed alike, as though plainclothes had only one meaning, of […]

Nature's (Human) Nature

May/June 2018

The Understory

By Marsha de la O

Through this window, the way she is without me in the sycamore, fox squirrel descending to the understory, quick and timorous, deep of eye, small muscled forepaws.    Past morning now […]