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May/June 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 3 • Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry |

Escape Fable

… place, where violence is rife, at the boundary of that which
escapes cohesion …
    —Georges Bataille

Groundwater seepage forms these silty pools. But to make an image
there must be a fool
who looks in.

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Rusty Morrison’s Beyond the Chainlink (Ahsahta) was published in January 2014. After Urgency won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize, the true keeps calm biding its story won the Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award, the Northern California Book Award, Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize and the Di Castagnola Award from Poetry Society of America. Her first book, Whethering, won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her poems are anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition), The Arcadia Project: Postmodern Pastoral, Beauty Is a Verb, and elsewhere. She is copublisher of Omnidawn.

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A stubborn roan lows in minor key  in memory of hunger carried through       winter petitions to the honorable pines  the great brood suffers awful       […]

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