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

The Changeling

By Kevin Craft

Like beargrass
you’ve grown
tender tall,
lightbulb bright.

You colonize
an alpine meadow
like a chain
reaction, like beargrass

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