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line dance for an american textbook

By Keith S. Wilson
An excerpt from poem "line dance for an american textbook" with orange lines connecting various words: blood is tougher to lift / from cotton than sorrow from a photo / I see the suspect country / of my grandfather I know almost nothing / but fear is this americ



 
An excerpt from poem "line dance for an american textbook". There are orange and blue lines connecting various words.



 
An excerpt from poem "line dance for an american textbook". There are orange, fading green, blue lines connecting various words.



 
An excerpt from poem "line dance for an american textbook". There are orange, fading green, grey, blue lines connecting various words.



 
An excerpt from poem "line dance for an american textbook". There are orange, fading green, grey, purple, blue lines connecting various words.



 
An excerpt from poem "line dance for an american textbook". There are orange, turquoise, green, grey, purple, blue lines connecting various words.

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