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Barbara E. Young: About the Language. And Inevitable Death

alone could fill all the space 
between all the yellow cities on the map with a hollow 
more empty than the echo of the emptiest of moved-from homes

February 7, 2022 · 2 Comments

Barbara E. Young: Cousin Jill

I like a woman who can fall
Jack said to Jill.

September 29, 2021 · 2 Comments

Barbara E. Young: Pain

Why
am I not raging?
Why aren’t we all?

August 9, 2021 · 3 Comments

Barbara E. Young: Blues for the Fisherman

Since the blues ought to be tall birds
wading and wailing 
when the sun dies—
let the blues fill its lungs now

July 12, 2021 · 3 Comments

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