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… Dreams Like This Must Die Illustration by Dani Choi. Then these women in a van … believe that diagonally across 17 there was another store—a competitor, I suppose—that sold seashells. Why didn’t … Mexico City just the day before; he’d packed the ampules, vials, and syringes inside six medium teddy bears. Had a …

… Brooks, and Amalia de Alberti. New York: Henry Holt and Company. Five volumes. $10.00. Men of Good Will Volume VII: … should bear the same title as a volume of Rol-land’s more compact cycle. “Death of a World” fits them both. Indeed, it … contempt on such empty gestures, fit only for intellectuals who turn to words because they are impotent in action. …

… The Week Before She Died I dream us young, again, mother and daughter back on … covert behind his almond eyes. With three regal strides he commands our gaze, pronounces the red brocade robe his, … The Week Before She Died …

… Big Bird Died for Your Sins   Barry was six-foot-six, fifteen like … dreaming drunk.  A crowd kept vigil on the beach. His compañero the catcher dove and dove again between the fins … from a cooler, I said: When my father told me Clemente died, there were tears in his eyes.   No one said anything, …

Point Reyes It was late June, the solstice.  The day took hours to end. You look like me, my father said quietly. We stood by the San Andreas Fault.  Soon, the plates would shift, toppling multiple cities. But the rift wasn’t visible; a bay  covered the …