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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Julie Strand Julie Strand is the Education Coordinator at Woodland Pattern Book Center. Her poetry has appeared in Wicked Alice, Arsenic Lobster, WOMB Poetry, Rock Heals (A Narrow House Weekly) and others. In 2008, her poem "Neon Yellow" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her second chapbook, The Mae West Defense, is forthcoming in 2009 from Dancing Girl Press.

the touching between us Julie Strand

shiny boots shine into mine water shiny boots oh boo for you who walk and not gurgle not flow not carry for you stand on land you cover and cradle are fashion and well you shine walk over here to me to water walk on me for my world is wet and yours sturdy don't make me love you shine as only one as one shine shine as a slide in the park the wind will connect us enough a window along this bank that peaks us our moment okay let's have more, step in, and color me shiny

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