Aaron Deutsch, Author at Scalawag

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Aaron Deutsch received his MFA with distinction from Texas State University. His work appears in Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Willows Wept Review and has work forthcoming in the anthology "Thirty Poems for the Tricentennial: A Poetic Legacy." He splits his time teaching English for Academic Purposes to the US’s many strategic partners and allies at the Defense Language Institute-English Language Center and teaching poetry workshops in his new home in San Antonio, TX.

Sunday
held bonfires in their honor, the town
painting names on feed store windows. Always
virgin daughters offered up at the riverfront
altar. Inside me was a boulder

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