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A poetic ode to friendship

Posted at 12:25 PM on July 3, 2009 by Marianne Combs (0 Comments)
Filed under: Writing

Check out Carol Muske-Dukes' poem "Twin Cities", published in the current edition of the New Yorker. Muske-Dukes uses images of the Mississippi and its east and west banks to recall a friendship from childhood. What holds us together, and what keeps us apart?

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