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Sometimes in life, one experiences a shock or a revelation so powerful that it stays with you for years. For me, one suc…

The temperature on this Tuesday morning in Grants Pass, Oregon, is edging up to ninety degrees as Helen Cruz and Just…

cold laps the shore
no choice but to step in
stride out, stake my place
transmute into tower

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“This is what he signed up for,”
my mother says when
my brother graduates from West Point.