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Poetry: Layers

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  by S.C. Kleinhans

  The jagged teeth of truth pierce through

  our thick skin of apathy, other subtle indifferences

  and disregard for our companions

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  by Caroline Ross

  THE SCARED STRIPPER

  Now I am
  The scared stripper
  Stripping for the first time
  Tentatively
  One piece
  Of clothing at a time
  A scared

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  by Adam Smith

  Layers

  I peel off the layers

  To get to the inside

  To get to that place so deep

  In which there is nowhere to hide.

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  by Kim Robinson

  VIDALIA ONIONS

  Every Sunday, before she prayed,
  My mother peeled three Vidalia onions
  For dinner, chopping them into pretty
  White

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  by Mona Gallagher

  Shredded layers are no longer
  clinging to my heart and mind.
  I've taken them off, examined them
  and finally left them behind.

  Can

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