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Oblation

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Before You Drown Your Own Fool Self: Survival in Kendra Allen’s The Collection Plate

Each poem, a tributary that flows across the page in form or a tribute to those that did not survive.

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by those who salute not nature for her

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A moment leads you to a new object of reward, fresh face

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Imagine eyes that peer past the pall and beyond

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He haunts the life I see for myself

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It was huge. It was too big to grow, but I grew it anyway.

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I wonder if the rooms will tell us to shut up one day with all the noise we be makin’.