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Drouth
I invoke the air in rage, am like a cancer in a cage— only myself to burn, to burn; mere glass and sun on an empty stage. Pick and...
Simple Anna
Simple Anna liked the words although she didn’t understand what many of them meant. Her man sometimes could make them into worlds where forests shaded green young girls. The...
Man in a Glacier
The mountainside failed. But when we saw that deep spot the dead sun came back heavy as an engine and my pick rattled like a gun. The ice unravelled;...
Aceldama
Eternity is uncorrupted light; the world proceeds by interrupting sight, exchanging day and night. Half the acts of earth avoid the sun; much that’s done may be begun by...