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September 29, 2017
 

Hunger

 
Kelli Russell Agodon
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About This Poem

 

“During long walks I kept finding fawn bones on my favorite trail. I had also been considering how sometimes when we mean to help, we make things worse, even when we are trying our best. I wanted this poem to live in that gray area.”
—Kelli Russell Agodon

 

Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Hourglass Museum (White Pine Press, 2014). She lives in the Seattle area and is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press.

Poetry by Agodon

 

Hourglass Museum

(White Pine Press, 2014)

"Eating the Bones" by Ellen Bass

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"Left-Handed Sugar" by Jane Hirshfield

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"Did You See the Sky" by Rachel Jamison Webster

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