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This week’s poem is by Jeredith Merrin: [Today I went]. This poem is from a sequence of 10-line poems in response to Merrin’s daughter’s cancer diagnosis. Three poems from Merrin’s series appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of VQR:

•  [Now, her hair …]

•  [Suddenly—no reason]

•  [Today I went]

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Click here to browse our Spring 2012 issue, which focuses on American poetry.

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