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Making Birch Paper with my Father

By Elizabeth Wing

(Fairbanks, Alaska: 2017)

Peeling birch bark
Off this dead log

Knife ashes
Cool in the amber
Of perpetual afternoon

(Summer – north – sun won’t sleep)

Things half-die
Each winter

Under
This
Brittle bark

We find
Green, peeking life

Second Place: Elizabeth Wing
Sir Francis Drake High School, 12th Grade

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