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Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

Mary Jo Bang

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Mary Jo Bang
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 22
Poet
Sociologist
Writer
Waynesville
Missouri
Nothing
Hats
Belong
Mirror
Mirrors
Grief
Window
Mirroring
Says
Hook
Black
Ashes

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