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Nin Andrews: The Continuing Adventures of “O”
Mitchell: Hey Nin! I’m getting a serious kick out of this feature. How did you come (no, we will not stoop to such low lying pun-plum) upon this idea for this particular installment in the...
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It was never he, The guards said he was close to madness. Juan Manuel Roca It was never he, he never escaped from the nightmare of that self. He rattled his bars in the night –lost dream of a...
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DEATH MARCH Carry her the way it has to hurt: arms outstretched, tears caught. Shrimp-curled, she weighs a shell’s worth. Worse, no nurse lurks. The flag’s furled in every way— she whispers Go Away....
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SOME FAITH God we need rain. And white flowers. Petals mimicking teeth and eggshells. And don’t forget the christening gown. Though lapsed I still respond to Holy Water, all the fingers before me,...
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Loud Walk in Fall There is something else noise hurts. Not just me. Flinching abounds in the open air which hasn’t a body, but still, is bare and has been walked in on. That truck with no muffler...
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SMOKE GHOST SMOKE : Its smell didn’t wake my husband as well—ceiling fans paddling the night air— he’d married me only on the condition I quit; claimed just a whiff swelled his eyes to...
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Old Husband’s Tales I’m one who tells old husbands’ tales, not wives’, And the stories and I keep growing old together: For instance, my friends and colleagues and family members Have often heard how...
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LA LONGUE DURÉE It’s a far cry from the blaze we light in our time, far from the rising of the lights, from which eleven persons died in London during the week of August 15, 1665, the same period...
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cedar top goddesses from phil’s sawmill The cedar goddesses lie down on saw-horses debarked by rain smooth like movie stars sinuous knotty tops sloped with open eyes we lock gazes forged in what I’d...
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PAPERS On the great estate her Great Aunt said stay until you grade Those papers. One student exclaimed She loved Sham pain . On hands and knees The maid asked how’s teaching ? Fine, if not for...
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EDITOR’S NOTE #46
Readers: April: my birthday month: the 19th. I tell you this not to elicit congratulations or condolences (61!), nor to observe the tragic events which lately have plagued this star-crossed date:...
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