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Kathy Nilsson

Kathy Nilsson's poems have been published in Ploughshares, Post Road, Volt, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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At dawn when traffic lights burn like roses
I feel pity akin to love
For the little deviants of wild
Turkeys skulking around this city.
Kathy Nilsson
Kathy Nilsson
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