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From “Transformatory Power”

By Madeline Gins
previously unpublished poems, along with other out-of-print titles by Gins, are collected in The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
 
previously unpublished poems, along with other out-of-print titles by Gins, are collected in The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
 
previously unpublished poems, along with other out-of-print titles by Gins, are collected in The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
 
previously unpublished poems, along with other out-of-print titles by Gins, are collected in The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
 
previously unpublished poems, along with other out-of-print titles by Gins, are collected in The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
 
previously unpublished poems, along with other out-of-print titles by Gins, are collected in The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
 
previously unpublished poems, along with other out-of-print titles by Gins, are collected in The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
 
previously unpublished poems, along with other out-of-print titles by Gins, are collected in The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
 
previously unpublished poems, along with other out-of-print titles by Gins, are collected in The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
 
Notes:

© 2020 Estate of Madeline Gins, from The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader, © 2020 Siglio Press.

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