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Spring 1990 • Vol. XII No. 2 • Poetry |

The Times and Trials of Moses Austin

Headwaters

The River des Peres winds eastward through the City of Saint Louis to empty, near its southern limit, into the Father of Rivers. It is believed that, not quite two hundred years ago, a pair of Jesuit fathers established there at its mouth the first white settlement west of the Mississippi.

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The dachshund yaps from his back yard till I’m past, then a few valedictory epithets (convinced of the power of his curse, unequivocal as Pan’s, before which hardened veterans pissed […]

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