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Spring 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 2 • Poetry |

We stare silent at the dead deer

By Jake Phillips

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Jake Phillips is a queer poet based in Rhode Island. He is a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal and was awarded a 2024 Make Art Grant by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. His poetry has been published and is forthcoming in AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, The Penn Review, Salt Hill, swamp pink, and elsewhere.

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