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turn around,     softened   —from "Salt for the Stain," Volume 61, Issue 4 (Winter 2020) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote. At first, my poems were basically a catalog of thoughts or lists (lists of lists) tapped into the notes app on my phone: 12 vultures, 3 crows, the dog’s impossibly coiled tail. The first piece I wrote for publication was in response to a call from Northern New England Review with the theme of “True North.” The dog’s impossibly coiled tail beca...