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Rebecca Givens Rolland

Poetry

Winter 2013

Presence

By Rebecca Givens Rolland

Bring on the unborn, the as-yet        unreleased—let the sand trap convex, turn mechanism        at the throat's base, beating gold with the threat of steeped        branches, bleating over and over-tired till […]

Poetry

Winter 2013

Storm

By Rebecca Givens Rolland

—as if the makeshift house             had finally flattened,             instantiation of another, undimming light—lack of stops             on the outward             barrel, hoisted quaking, wind scavenging insulation, eaves—locked ease             already splitting             to blared […]