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    • PV 3: Winter 2020
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      • Our Love was a Hazardous Spill
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Punt Volat

the journal with a flying point

Our Love was a Hazardous Spill

C.M. Preston is a Canadian poet currently attending the MFA program at The University of British Columbia.

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