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May/June 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 3 • Nature's Nature |

Escape from Milam Landfill

By Ryan Patrick Smith

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Ryan Patrick Smith
Ryan Patrick Smith holds a BA in English from Transylvania University and MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poetry, runner-up in the 2015 Boston Review Poetry Contest and semifinalist in the 2015 Discovery Poetry Contest, appears or is forthcoming in the Boston Review, Salt Hill, Architrave Press, and elsewhere.

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