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Winter 2000 • Vol. XXII No. 1 • Poetry |

Kill Born, Weed Smoke, Chk Mark, Onchola Senn

The two officers say they will appeal.
  The kid, one Jeremiah Mearday, says he was just
 on his way to the drugstore

  for some cold meds. The cops say
   they didn’t even have with them
  the flashlights said to have been used

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David Wojahn’s most recent collection of poetry, For the Scribe, appeared from the Pitt Poetry Series in 2017. His previous collection, World Tree (Pittsburgh, 2011), was the winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the low-residency MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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