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May/June 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 3 |

If You Draw Rightly On A Wound, It Might Righten

By Jesse Nathan

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Jesse Nathan is a lecturer in the English Department at UC Berkeley. His poems appear in Paris Review, Yale Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. He grew up in rural Kansas and lives now in San Francisco.

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