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

wild turkeys on sunday

By G.C. Waldrep

arrested, field-in-hythe

a queue forms,
vision is licensed
against its greater mesh
precision is not,
as some claim, a virtue

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G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; The Earliest Witnesses (Tupelo/Carcanet, 2021); and The Opening Ritual (Tupelo, forthcoming 2024). Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Bucknell University.

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darkling copse

By G.C. Waldrep

child-snow’s hive-like glyph sextons mission, egg, tongue a replica, this filament casts no shadow Already have an account? Log in Join KR for even more to read. Sign up for […]

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Vocation

By G.C. Waldrep

the green memory presses its face against the safety glass it murmurs —Talitha cumi Already have an account? Log in Join KR for even more to read. Sign up for […]

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