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Poem of the Week: “Whin” by Alan Gillis

“Whin,” the opening poem from Over Here by Alan Gillis, is an evocative experiment in atmospheric language and natural imagery. In this textured inventory of a perhaps moody and mercurial, perhaps spectacularly bright, landscape, the poet places a speaker in the tension between the light and the dark, between wild living and looming ends: “Aye,…