Cover Art: Black Mountain, Kentucky, photograph

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De Rata

Erasure from Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

Go amid noise and remember
there may be good persons.

Speak others, avoid spirit.
If you always will be greater

than yourself, well, keep
a real changing. Your world

is full but blind to many high
everywhere, yourself especially.

Be about the face of the grass.
Take things to you sudden,

but do yourself dark/
wholesome, a universe
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less right. Therefore conceive,
whatever your sham: strive.

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Laurinda Lind lives teaches English composition in New York's North Country, near Canada. Some poetry acceptances/ publications include Blueline, Comstock Review, Constellations, The Cortland Review, Kestrel, Main Street Rag, Paterson Literary Review, and Radius; also anthologies Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (New Rivers Press) and AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss & Grief (Radix Media). She won the 2018 Keats-Shelley Prize for adult poetry.

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last, Alec Hershman                                                                                                                                                                                                          next, Simon Perchik