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Fall 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 4 • Visitation |

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By Bryce Emley

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Bryce Emley is the author of the chapbooks A Brief Family History of Drowning (Sonder Press, forthcoming) and Smoke and Glass (Folded Word, 2018). He works in marketing at the University of New Mexico Press and is Poetry Editor of Raleigh Review. Read more at bryceemley.com.

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