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Carl Adamshick is the author of two poetry collections, Curses and Wishes, winner of the 2010 Walt Whitman Award, and Saint Friend (McSweeney’s, 2014). He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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    by Carl Adamshick
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    I didn’t know a woman could vanish
    within herself, didn’t know fear
    would then be her master.

    I didn’t see the sun under the lindens
    of November or the moon riding
    a wet black horse.
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