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Read poems by Arizona and Southwestern writers, plus classic work preserved in the AZPoetry literary archive.
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2026
A transgender speaker imagines a painful confrontation with his identical twin through the mythology of a Western showdown, casting himself as outlaw and his sister as sheriff while pleading for recognition, reconciliation and continued family love.
