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Nov/Dec 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 6 • Poetry |

Our Lady of Thread

By Dayna Patterson

What if, as if believing, I pray / and see what happens?
—Jennifer Bullis

crisis always in medias res
—Kristin George Bagdanov

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