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Summer 2014 • Vol. XXXVI No. 3 • Poetry |

Oh, Dodo. You Can’t

By Allison Hutchcraft

From So Legged and Footed

Oh, Dodo. You can’t
  do what others do.
    You’re caught up
in a wild
  bulb of a beak—

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Allison Hutchcraft’s poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, the Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte.

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From So Legged and Footed You, again,  all sea-brain    and moon-feet— your plush wide awake    with cities of fleas. Already have an account? Log in Join KR for even more […]

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