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Jesse Nathan

Jesse Nathan's poems appear in the American Poetry ReviewjubilatDIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco.

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Poetry
Words a rotted barn, full of must
and straw and animals sleeping.
I want to dream with you the mountainsides,
the beaches, the necking in guestbeds,
the words the wiring of our cry.
Jesse Nathan

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