headless nails
declawed hammer
aching sawtooth
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new health card
break a leg
outbreak of smiles
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passionaectomy
poisonberry soup
gallstone fence
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sculpted abs
rottenstone belly
chiseler’s mark
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first gasp
last legs
back to back
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overhead
I
underfoot
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no prayer
all morning
kneeling bus
Ed is a poet and printer living in Northfield, MA. His chapbook from Slate Roof is “All We Can Do Is Wait,” and he has a full length book coming from Hedgerow Press, The Paleontologist’s Red Pumps. He runs Swamp Press, which publishes limited edition letterpress books of poetry. The press was founded in 1976 and its books have won various awards, including two NEA grants, a CCLM grant, Grand Prize in a juried Gallery Show at Cooperstown, NY, etc. Swamp Press books are in the Rare Book collections of the Boston Public Library, New York Public Library, Brown, Harvard, Smith College, SUNY, McGill, & so on. Over the years the press has published over seventy titles, many in both paper editions and deluxe limited editions.