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Cave Canem

Volume 18:2, Cave Canem 20th Anniversary Issue, guest edited by Holly Bass and Joel Dias-Porter

Poems and Essays:

26 | Sandy Hook*

coffee with a married woman

Delicious, New Edition, 1986

Dream Variation

Five Poems

Five Poems

For Peace in the Valley

Introduction to the Cave Canem 20th Anniversary Issue

It’s Possible I’m Too Bougie to Be Free

Mercy

More A’s B’s C’s & D’s, or The President Is About To Grab Victim’s Money Like It’s Pussy

Mural for the Heart

Notes on Debridement

Relax, Relate, Release

The Baby

the fire this time. remembering april, 1992.

The Switch

Three Poems

Three Poems

Three Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

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