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Cindy Veach is the author of Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press), named a finalist for the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, Salamander and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the Phillip Booth Poetry Prize and the Samuel Washington Allen Poetry Prize. Cindy is co-poetry editor of Mom Egg Review.

Cindy Veach .

Gallows Project Team Verifies Site of Salem Witch Trial Hangings

Near the stoplight. By the big Walgreens.

Over to the right. See that rock ledge?

Where it’s dark. Those bare oak trees.

Near the stoplight. By the big Walgreens

And the Dunkin’ Donuts full of randy teens.

Now we know. It’s not where legend said.

But near the stoplight. By the big Walgreens.

Over to the right. That rock ledge.

— Cindy Veach

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