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Sleeping Alone
… did anything, I just wanted them to suffer some easily remedied discomfort. I didn’t care that Tusker, too, would have to … she asks, and lifts the silver cover on a platter and points. Inside are reddish brown sweet and sour meatballs …
The Heart of Light
… $5.95. In James Wright’s Collected Poems (1971), the reader comes across “Small Frogs Killed on the Highway,” … a perilous black, a secret light that must have been studied for many years before the anxious and disciplined … , Wright narrates his desire: “I float among/ Lonely animals, longing/ For the red spider who is God.” That desire is …
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Eleven Months
… being simultaneously involved in all this as required yet also a center round which it all orbits with a beauty. That …
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Descent into Haiti
… among themselves in black piles of steamy garbage. No sound comes from the mouths of the withered men and women picking … Nov. 11–21, 2004,” charged that UN peacekeepers and soldiers “resort to heavy-handed incursions into the poorest … chair in the cramped humidity of her cinder block house and points toward the bed cluttered with pots, pans, and …
Lessons
… had mastered oven-lighting we could proceed to some really complicated things, like melted cheese sandwiches. We could … than renters. A newcomer in the class was an event, but also an intrusion, and Melanie hadn’t looked particularly … cheeks and small green eyes. She was still carrying her briefcase, a really sloppy one with gashes in it and bandaids …
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Man, Man, Et Cetera
… She catches you staring and she grins. Then a man comes out of the mini-mart and hands her an iced tea before … sign on the ground floor of her building. When your sister comes down to let you in, her face is red and wet with … the Hudson.  In Washington Square you take off your sandals and sit at the edge of the fountain to dip your feet. …
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