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Today's poem is "There Is a Snake"

from Iron Horse Literary Review

Bess Cooley won the 2017 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Columbia Poetry Review, Atticus Review, Breakwater Review, and Forklift, Ohio. She teaches at the University of Tennessee.

Other poems on the web by Bess Cooley:
Two poems
"Corkscrew"

Bess Cooley's Website.

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