Author: Austin MacRae
MacRae currently resides in Freeville, New York, and teaches English at Tompkins Cortland Community College. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in such forums as 32 Poems, Atlanta Review, The Cortland Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Verse Wisconsin.
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Before I heard how loggers loosed their logs on down the mountainside by sluice, constructing miles of flume along a floor of bowing ferns; before I grasped how water works with gravity to minimize the timber’s heft and haul; before I sank a hatchet deep and marveled how a body hardens by unalterable law, I …