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Sept/Oct 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 5 • Poetry |

There Are 118 Known Elements

By Jeff Whitney

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Jeff Whitney’s most recent collection, Sixteen Stories, is forthcoming from Flume Press. His recent poems can be found or found soon in The Adroit Journal, Cherry Tree, Poetry Northwest, and Reservoir Road Literary Review. Whitney lives in Portland.

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