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

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By Lee Sharkey

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Lee Sharkey is the author of Calendars of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2013) and three other full-length collections. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Field, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, and Seattle Review. She is the coeditor of the Beloit Poetry Journal.

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