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… each poem, the poet flung the paper plate into the audience like a Frisbee. People reached up and caught them … the reading was over, she left it on the floor. Other audience members, though, took their paper plates with them.  … off the motor. He got off the seat, and made the kickstand come down. “Goodnight. Thanks,” she said, running to her …

… Pack that was really into the holistic and prolonged rituals of noncontact conflict resolution. “Mr. Apple?” He swung around. Coming down the stairs, darker than a plumb tumbling down a … needs to grab these girls.” “The fuck are those?” “oh, wow, sweetie….nononono.” “I’m dead.” “this is why I don’t …

… sink has been working well—a satisfying ting, ting, ting . Also the panes of window glass—higher, though, and more … the colors that catch Alice’s eye, the parade of bright bodies turning the corner of 49th street onto the avenue, then … the carton is missing. Then there is dancing. The fat women compliment Alice on her moves. They say they have never seen …

… forty-six, Ojibwe, had careers where they sat in front of computers all day long and children off at college. Robin … classes in Minneapolis for the state, she’d never truly studied Anishinaabemowin, the language beaten out of Robin’s … with you?” Cara cut her off and said she had to study. Finals week. Robin thought of having a smoke, but didn’t want …

… Louise almost said something but caught herself. Evelyn was coming through her door; let Evelyn announce her own … hearing but thought better of it. Janet couldn’t help the falseness; it was all Evelyn’s influence. Louise had tried, … enough at the time to know, but he did. Anyhow, once he died, I came back here. By then Janet—​that’s my …