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by Heather Newman<\/em><\/p>\n

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She found a job and hunkered down that winter, though
\nhe had taken off to shoot volcanoes in Bora Bora.
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an underpaid assistant to a misogynist in a
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with more unknown callers. In one version of truth,
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\nas Daphne, now a tree, thanks Apollo for cutting her branches.
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Poet's Statement: \"Perception\" evolved from a poetry prompt to find lines and write their opposites. Experimenting with literal and figurative meanings led me to think about truth as a perception, as a means to seize and understand. Predators and prey in all species act out of their own versions of truth. They all create survival mechanisms.<\/p>\n

Bio:\u00a0Heather Newman's work is forthcoming in Hanging Loose #111<\/em>, and has appeared in Right Hand Pointing, The Inquisitive Eater, Voices From Here, Vol. II<\/em> (Paulinskill Poetry Project anthology) and more. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in 2019, is a member of the South Mountain Poets, and teaches at The Writers Circle in NJ.
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