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Body Shadows

Bill Coyle

Once upon a time the Chairman ordered the complete destruction of the “Four Pests” plaguing China: bedbugs, roaches, rats, and sparrows. Bourgeois birds, he called the sparrows. Sparrows stole...

Friend, in the Desolate Time

Bill Coyle

Friend, in the desolate time, when your soul is enshrouded in darkness When, in a deep abyss, memory and feeling die out, Intellect timidly gropes among shadowy forms and...