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ann schneider's avatar

I have read this several times. The writing is wonderful.

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Joanne Sprott's avatar

Super-powerful, Janet. Also disturbing, yes. But that's reality. Often a very rough ride.

About the line returns in Substack. Substack assumes when you hit return/enter that you want a new paragraph, which automatically creates some extra space so you can discern different paragraphs when reading. Many other word processing systems are the same, but you may not have spaces set between paragraphs so you don't notice the difference, and you may be creating two returns to get to a new paragraph to create the space.

The magic keystroke combo to keep these stanza lines closer together is Shift and Return/Enter together. Press the Shift key, then press Return. When you want a new stanza, press just Return. I can't remember if Substack will honor your Shift Returns if you do them on your own computer and then copy/paste the whole poem at once. But from my experience on my own Substack, you can get it to work.

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