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Atria: Pulse
	L our landscape: I offer you this catalogue of plants yes some are carnivorous ingesting fly-flesh like suns others might choke on raindrops or blossom open in the small crescent moon of your hand
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Inquietude (IX)
	both couched we speak of silent things a clover's head sprouts a fifth leaf & we count blessings in mute cushions what we can't not do to one another is the potential expressed in the forefinger's ridged pressing a counting of skin impressions moles’ rigid glyphs blanket heat your shoulders bare my touch a lung I sink down quiet even the wind envies your slight breath opening somewhere a clenched bud
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JERROD E BOHN completed his MFA in creative writing at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where he now lives and teaches. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Ottawa Arts Review, Inertia, Matter, The Montreal Review, and other journals. He is currently trying to find a publisher for what will be his first book-length collection.

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