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May 1990

 
  • Wendy Barker
  • Jared Carter
  • Gillian Conoley
  • Mark Doty
  • Debora Greger
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Etching of the Plague Years

In the valley of your art history book,   
the corpses stack in the back of a cart
drawn by an ox whose rolling shoulder muscles   
show its considerable weight.

He does this often. His velvet nostrils   
flare to indicate the stench.

It’s the smell you catch...
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