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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Katrin Tschirgi

Shepherd’s Asylum

September 30, 2014

Katrin Tschirgi

In the hipbone slopes of the Owyhee Mountains, my sister lives in an abandoned shepherd’s homestead. She says the white alkaline hills are closing in on her, that she can taste the iron in the sand and it tastes like … Continued

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