The Stratford Quarterly Issue 1

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Mary Anne Griffiths Moles Below the blistered wood a lead fist: these four little ones under the thumb of a blind mother unfold like an anxious sky, cloud-knotted, remembering sun, pine-crush, touch before assuming earth before fear sweated the palm of the nest.

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