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A North Carolina poet remembers a long-ago night of young love, interrupted by some ominous figures.

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Two lifelong friends—one a poet, one a painter–talk about it all: labor, joy, and love; the value of slowness; the subtleties of structure; and how to “make it soft, make it low.”

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