The hemisphere is shaking off the wet leftovers of winter, dear reader, but is it through? What is and isn’t paid and evened up, in Grace Bauer’s “The Deceptive Day”:
This poem originally appeared in SC 4.3. Buy a copy, download, and subscribe. Read on.


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