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YOUR CART

ALISON PRINE

Before the Time of Distance

when I didn’t hunger to hear the small talk of strangers

words handed off like buckets in a fire line

serious thoughts confided to an infant

a hundred rains across the surface of the sea

my mother’s silhouette against my night window

a dream of a white field

the season moves toward us like a lid about to close 

moments before snow

build up within us like a sob

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September / October, 2022

Barbara Daniels
Alison Prine’s debut collection of poems, Steel (Cider Press Review, 2016) was named a finalist for the 2017 Vermont Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Five Points, Harvard Review and Prairie Schooner among others. She lives and works in Burlington, Vermont. Visit her at alisonprine.com.
Art:  Madge Evers. Bluets in June. Mushroom spores on paper. 
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