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Image of several grocery store aisles and a woman appearing to be taking inventory of the items.

Left column is quoted from Michael Harrington’s The Other America: Poverty in the United States, 1962

Sarah Elkins lives in southern West Virginia. Her work is forthcoming from Cimarron Review. Her poem “Water Tension” was a finalist for the 2021 Quarterly West Poetry Contest. Previous work also appears in The Rappahannock Review, Passengers Journal, The Shore, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere. Sarah holds an MFA from Pacific University. She serves as a member of Lewisburg, WV City Council and chair of the Parks Commission. She and her husband coach a youth mountain bike team and own/operate Hammer Cycles bike shop.

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