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Trent Busch

Poetry

Spring 1997

Newspaper Photograph

By Trent Busch

She watches the sky, holding her hat against a forties wind, her heavy coat pressed against a rope-lined street, her other hand shading her eyes from the winter sun, saying […]

Poetry

Spring 1997

The Vase of Flowers

By Trent Busch

Arrangement is an accident, she said, turning from the vase of flowers, relying on roadside reds or blues or hillside yellows then in season,      just as the town ripped in […]