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    Heather McHugh

    Summer 2018

    One shoe
    was on

    the dead one’s
    foot and went

    with her. The other
    stayed on the third

    step from the top,
    and is there yet,

    for those who aren't
    entitled to forget. The when

    and where would soon
    be said and done. Could a gown

    have been a drag, for instance, given
    current events and the holes

    in our craft? (Look floater
    up. Get eider

    down.)

    Heather McHugh lives on the Olympic Peninsula. She taught at the University of Washington for thirty years, and continues to take students occasionally through the MFA program at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

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