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Jan/Feb 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Silphium

By Victoria Bosch Murray

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Victoria Bosch Murray’s chapbook of poems “Prayer for Plum and Sinew" was published by Red Bird in 2022. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Bennington Review, Cimarron Review, Field, Greensboro Review, Kenyon Review, Salamander, Phoebe, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Boston, Massachusetts.

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