diff --git a/lambda/bracery-view.js b/lambda/bracery-view.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/lambda/bracery-view.js
+++ b/lambda/bracery-view.js
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ exports.handler = async (event, context, callback) => {
           if (result.bracery)
             tmpMap[templateDefVar] = result.bracery;
           // If no expansion, call expandFull
+          return expansion;  // since parser seems to hang on AWS (but not locally), just bypass the server expansion for now... sigh  IH 4/3/2020
           return (expansion
                   ? expansion
                   : (util
diff --git a/src/rhs.js b/src/rhs.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/src/rhs.js
+++ b/src/rhs.js
@@ -8644,7 +8644,6 @@ function peg$parse(input, options) {
     return makeFunction ('placeholder', [pseudoQuote (args), coord])
   }
 
-
   peg$result = peg$startRuleFunction();
 
   if (peg$result !== peg$FAILED && peg$currPos === input.length) {
workaround for parser hanging on AWS