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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Beth Bretl Beth Bretl is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she recently served as co-editor of poetry for The Cream City Review. Her poetry and fiction have been published or are forthcoming in Free Verse, North American Review, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine and Calyx.

Casualty Beth Bretl

1. this invective on the shoddiness of "suffice" wears the roof uneven tattered rain sends the fog hugely, they bait volcanoes tally bolls of cloud cover the room, compliant the night-moon, gauze 2. someone has left linens, small trajectory of forget-me-nots on this ligature: a silvered repose, meantime silt maroons a valley opportunely transcribed water slaps absently against the page what slips the mind he cannot imagine

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