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It Is Pretty Cold

by Scott Challener

is what Whitman writes in his journal
when he describes the hospitals.
It is pretty cold.
Fredericksburg, late December

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PoetryScott Challener

Scott Challener was born in Pennsylvania in 1979 and received a BA from the University of Rochester and an MFA in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is a lecturer in Boston University’s writing program and lives in Boston. Challener was a finalist in Narrative’s First Annual Poetry Contest.

Photograph by Thomas Gearty.


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Spring 2010

Spring 2010

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