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In equal balance justly weighed

Dangerous Grounds

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Tax and the Canadian Psyche

Elsbeth Heaman in conversation with Shirley Tillotson

 

Beside your trinket house

the garden gathered rain. I pulled pears

from the pear tree, and saw a few things

grow (the wise, dumb pumpkins

engorged below the gate…)

I split a stump, wrote letters, gathered

oysters, ate the rain.

 

James Arthur is the author of Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press 2012). He is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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