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Laren McClung

Laren McClung is author of Between Here and Monkey Mountain and coedited Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees.

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Poetry
She’s twenty-eight & already
venerated, having suffered

the grief of the pigeon-toed, suffused
with the grace of the grotesque,

but knowing a work of art reveals
the burden of original sin

Flannery’s Peacocks

Laren McClung

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