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Elegy Ending with a Slice of Sour-Cream-and-Raisin Pie

Joe WilkinsPoetry

Joe Wilkins   A boy wants to break the world in half and put it in his pocket. All through the eulogy   I thumbed a cracked mussel shell pulled the day before from the shallows beneath the bridge,   the shell’s interior curves so perfect and slick I could almost feel the mother-of-pearl—   […]