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Pluralities
2023-12-05PluralitiesRalph AdamoI hate that you are on the other side this eveningIf I go somewhere to cry for you how will I stopI hope this finds you well. It...
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Heat Goes Out Walking in the Cold
2023-12-05Heat Goes Out Walking in the ColdK. A. HaysIt seems possible, and I've been told,that even the dying, who don't mean to,stow at the ribs yello...
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Low Tide
2023-12-05Low TideAlan ShapiroOn the mud flatswhere I’m walkingeach step pushes the wetout from beneath itto a dry haloof a heel and toewhich as I lift it...
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Relic
2023-12-05RelicPatricia HooperHere is a bird's breastbone,the keel of a ship scrubbed cleanof its cargo and rigging, its rib cagelaid bare in this harbor of...
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Folk Tale
2023-12-05Folk TaleChelsea Woodard for Nonny HogrogianIn the story, I remember a hungry young fox rendered in pastels. He has stolenfrom a strict-manne...
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About Opera
2023-12-05About OperaGeoffrey Brock Fuggirmi io sol non soIn the real world, lighting is undesigned;here it's high art. After we find our seats,silen...
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School of Practical Dissection
2023-12-05School of Practical DissectionKenny WilliamsIn the hands of the priestthe heart has to breaklike crockery, for a single man,not the human racewhich we...
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The Dream of a Little Occupied Japan Doll
2023-12-05The Dream of a Little Occupied Japan DollKimiko HahnAmong the hundred porcelain figurines,the first one -- with slanted eyes, fat cheeks,queue (though...
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Sonnet for the Misbegotten
2023-12-05Sonnet for the MisbegottenJill BialoskyThe surfers are on deck in black divingpenguin suits, fins on their feet -- surfer schoolfor the youth of the r...
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Walking a Labyrinth
2023-12-05Walking a LabyrinthDouglas GoetschEleanor, who is drivingme to the AtlanticCity bus station,asks if I wouldn'tmind stoppingat a labyrinthin Longpo...