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Mary Strong Jackson

53 years old

Social worker and poet who lives and works in Scottsbluff, NE.


Soldier Trees

Soldier Trees

We must bomb the orchards
and kill the trees
for they have the apples

we'll crate the broken limbs
and burned trunks home
in coffins made of bone and flesh


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