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Saturday, December 15, 2012

NEWTOWN EPITAPH

by Alan Catlin



A circle of flags
lowered to
half-mast;

someone has been
killing our
children.


Alan Catlin has published numerous chapbooks and full-length books of poetry and prose, the latest of which, from Pygmy Forest Press, is Alien Nation.