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Vol. 3, No. 2: Summer 1997

On Winslow Homer’s Weaning the Calf

by James Applewhite

What shadows my happiness? The boy and calf so linked by
     a rope seem to forget all else. Grass recedes to the horizon
and chickens roam free. Hay stacked richly as memory bulges
          mountainously on the sky.

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