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Mar/Apr 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 2 • Nature’s Nature |

Lullaby Interrupted by the Stump of the Mammoth Tree

This is as close as I can get
to a lullaby. It’s July — four months
into the virus, and sleeping

through the early morning exists
only as a memory, a relic
of the Before. Before I swirled

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Anna Journey is the author of the poetry collections Vulgar Remedies (Louisiana State University Press, 2013) and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), which was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her website is http://annajourney.com.

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