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October 2008

Emily Farranto, Untitled (Burning House), 2003
 
  • Sarah Lindsay
  • Adrian Blevins
  • Craig Arnold
  • John Repp
  • Eric Ekstrand
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From this Issue

Poem
Tell the bees. They require news of the house;
they must know, lest they sicken
from the gap between their ignorance and our grief.
Speak in a whisper. Tie a black swatch
to a stick and attach the stick to their hive.
From the fortress...
Poem
If your mother’s like mine wanting you honeyed and blithe   
                   you’ll get cooked by getting evicted   

since the mothers can teach with a dustpan the tons of modes of tossing.

And the fathers will lift your eyes too-early-too-open:   
                   the...
Poem
There is no I in teamwork
but there is a two maker

there is no I in together
but there is a got three
a get to her

the I in relationship
is the heart I slip on...
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Bishop & Lowell: Words in Air
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