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… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … optimism and good cheer watching them slouch unselfconsciously back into their roost. And sugar! On the … that people won’t weep? No, because if we do, poetry will die. The rhyming of rhymes is a powerful form of …

… delicacy of spiders traversing a thread. Two men from the audience that gathered by the trees let the brass handles … he’ll be dug up by eight, after dinner, when the people come flocking back with their bellies full of grits, tomato, … Desire, the scent-drenched flower that never closes, never dies, craves flesh to feed its hungry eye. The dirt is …

… Miami called Matacumbe. It was one of several camps that composed the Catholic Welfare Bureau’s Peter Pan mission, … each other, at the drug-sniffing cocker spaniel, at the soldiers in blue. The thrill of the landing had evaporated. The … openness that has disappeared. We could see the two hospitals that anchored the neighborhood—Nacional and, for …

… years, but Pickering is delighted they haven’t disappeared completely. Now he cannot resist those ears: he rises from … for leaving Montreal. His last known relative, an aunt, had died, leaving him an estate valued at 60 thousand. Not a … people for the music he feels leaping in his throat. 317-326 By Peter Corodimas …

… “How her team even won is beyond me,” the dean said. “The points,” Ella Markovna said. She turned very red. “They just … foreign word sitting uneasy on her tongue, reminded me of a comedy sketch from the latest KVN show. One guy, an … to avert his eyes; draped in a plaid scarf, he calmly studied his long, polished fingernails. And what could he tell …