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Winter 1992 • Vol. XIV No. 1 • Poetry |

Contra-Dancing in Nelson, N. H.

for Leslie

It was a ragged crew, just like you’d said—
some hippies, gents and ladies, little kids.
On stage, our landlord fiddled in his red

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