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Winter 1984 • Vol. VI No. 1 • Poetry |

The Field

By Mark DeFoe

Where the 4-lane carves into the county,
drivers see the boy and dog sprawled
on the rumpled quilt of field.
The dog pounces; the boy rolls, laughing.

Driver A

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