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Sept/Oct 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 5 |

Headlands 1

By Shelley Wong

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Shelley Wong
Shelley Wong is a Kundiman Fellow and the author of the chapbook Rare Birds (Diode Editions, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Massachusetts Review, and Sycamore Review, among others. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, I-Park Foundation, and Palm Beach Poetry Festival.

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Headlands 2

By Shelley Wong

standing in the cement circle I am not a gun, I am a woman fog enters, a sudden gentleness, vanishing the edge of the hills my beautiful hand drifts over […]

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