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Jared Carter

Let us go then, up the long stairs            and down the hall,Through rooms in which a storm of air           ...

Soldier

Jared Carter

You, my friend, who died in battle,        can’t remember How your breath became a rattle,       then, more slender, Changed to prayer. What syllables       were left to say, What could...