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Poetry Unbound

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Blood Snow by Nanogock Bix

Nanogock Bix is an upiac Inuit from Alaska who now lives in New Mexico. She's fished the waters of the region where she was raised and you see land and architecture and wildlife and personhood all correlating to each other. The poem has multiple references to cancer there is the breast cuspid armpit and then middle chest and radiation of a lumbar sack and drip dip coils.

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