a seven-branched candlestick deep into a mattress. In a copper twilight a scarfed girl peels an onion. Almost to ... would quietly withdraw, gloving their velvet skins back into holes. The stars themselves said nothing, ...
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I couldn't take the look in your eyes." The man looked at the woman, at the contours of her face, at ... the sensitive line beyond the corner of her mouth which now dimpled with laughter or some other ... And the mountain burned noiselessly. Perhaps he would come upon her now. If he came upon her now her ...
A Little Bird Told Me They say Aunt Jane had birds in her head. Each time she had a thought she ... and chirp and twitter and peck at the sides of her skull to be let out. They gave her terrible ... headaches. Elsewhere, little girls sat next to their mothers to watch them put on makeup, but in Aunt Jane’s ...
bed whose rumpled sheets seem to have been thrown back a second earlier by the sleeping young girl ... Page 324 from Issue 26 rope-soled espadrilles Hamilton is wearing make no sound on the beaten dirt ... a room and stops in the doorway after pushing the door half open. Like all the other rooms in the large ...
thorns bring back my heart with wine make me a blanket of sunshine i'm smothering beneath this ... this veil of blood on my head my face buried in the blood could i hold out much longer in this blood ... and say you my other aren't you ever going to answer me you fluster me i lust for you i dream ...
Page 155 from Issue 87 Two Poems Holly Welker Because I Used To Be a Good Girl Why don't ... things burn up? I come home to a house without smoke billowing out windows, my house or someone ... are sinks where I have stood hulling strawberries, peeling papaya and peaches. It's easy to ...
Page 80 from Issue 31 3. Tiger Dawn of Gemini, listen The roaring tears of the furious earth ... shells, machine guns Helicopters chopping the morning fog, listen Louisa, what does the Persian rug tell ... you? What did the Asian mud ever tell me? 4. Hare Turn, please face east, when the Crab Suggests ten ...
against your skin. I began carving off the peel, grazing you with the knife’s edge at regular intervals. ... Mango Market Most days I find the taste of mango between your legs, but other times it surprises ... strand of hair. Some days green and self-protective, plaintive and tart or sharp and haughty, other days ...
from then on, neglecting his exam, joined the alliance. The ticket girl was happy enough to include him ... attendance dwindled and she complained so continuously that it was decided to make another appeal to the ... nor the aunt's house, nor the ticket girl's door. With sound judgment, they elected ...
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and would push the first one down with her foot until all of them rested against each other in ... been twins, or their souls should have been combined to make one child, a great son, who would have ... Lam peeled lichees for her sister at the kitchen table, and then she left for her own room, ending the ...
