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Poetry

Winter 2008

The Hallelujah Chorus

By Red Hawk

It rained 2 days in a row, hard cloudbursts, wet grass right in the middle of fevered days of late August when it is so hot in Arkansas that down […]

Poetry

Autumn 2005

The Idea of Crocodiles

By Red Hawk

i have spent a good portion of my adult life observing the connection between thought and suffering, between the mind's ability to imagine and hold onto an idea in memory, […]