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Mackenzie Kozak holds a BA from Wake Forest University and an MFA from UNC-Greensboro. She lives in Asheville, NC where she admires mountains and grocery stores. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, jubilat, Prelude, Sixth Finch, and Thrush Poetry Journal. Find her online at mackenziekozak.com
some days i carry my basket of swans
to a lake and drown them
the feathers do not float no
the feathers will not stop floating
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