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Bill Simmons writes and lives in Carroll, Iowa. He conducts the poetry group in Carroll and started a writers’ group with Des Moines Area Community College instructors in Boone, Iowa.
Arts & CulturePoetry
I would stand out in the mallows
And cow pastures, arms and eyes
Opened wide, crying, praying: