Deborah Ager is the founder of 32 Poems Magazine. Her reviews and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Review, Georgia Review, New England Review, The North American Review, Quarterly West, Talisman Review and elsewhere.
She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and was a Tennessee Williams scholar in poetry at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
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This poem is set in Lamoni, Iowa, a small town marked by a factory siren and a cattle auction. The speaker remembers living with "the tall man" she did not love. She walked the few streets dreaming of Italy while he pointed out manure between the cobblestones.
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