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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Clay, Adam, 1978-

[Poems. Selections]

Stranger : poems / Adam Clay. -- First edition.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-1-57131-463-5 (acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-57131-909-8 (ebook)

I. Title.

PS3603.L385A6 2016

811’.6--dc23

2015017007

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STRANGER

Title Page

ONE

1 To Take Note of Where We Are

2 Northern Lights

3 Disruption Without Shrapnel

4 Along the Edge of a Season

5 Don’t Look Back

6 Exhibit A

7 Home as a Haunt

8 The End Time Before the End Time

9 Even a Straight Line Must Curve to Shape the World