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Behind the Motel A man lies under a car half bare a child plays bullfight with a torn cloth hemlocks grieve in wraps of mist a woman talks on the phone, looks in a mirror fiddling with the metal pull of a drawer She has seen her world wiped clean, the …

… Solstice vs. Equinox   When it comes to the workings of the universe, Albert Einstein … its position relative to the stars so that, over a nearly 26,000-​year cycle, Earth’s north pole points to different places in the sky, which yields minor …

… move, just lies still and soaks into the grass. Game injury comes in multiple ways, always all of a sudden. It can be … play, and no one knows the guy is down until it’s over. Bodies scramble as the play evolves; formations collapse, … teammate, Jason Callahan, my bunkmate the night before, all 260 Ibs., rolled over my ankle and pulled me down. I …

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