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Author Archives: Jennifer Bartlett

from “In the Country of Absence”

March 17, 2017

Jennifer Bartlett

My love wanted a glass of water so I pulled an old, plastic, dirty cup out of my bag and offered it to him to fill with water. My love said that if he were put in a poem, no … Continued

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