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A Small Hotel in Florence 

Steven Peterson

Two twin-like English sisters ran the place. When we checked in, one asked, “Is it the case . . .?” The other finished, “It’s your honeymoon?”    It was. They handed...

All Bright Things

Steven Peterson

At Chartres, we see the stained glass windows slumpfrom centuries of gravity, becomingthicker glass at bottom than the top,like waterfalls of slow and liquid sand. In Athens, temples, sculpture,...