Everything about this city is a shade of gray, from the moody sky to the ancient woman who sweeps the sidewalk. Stone walls split to create narrow passages where canals wind towards wider bodies of water. The main street runs along a wide canal past the cathedral, under the un-commemorative arch, and into [...]

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Beside a red azalea on a quiet suburban street a boy, aged nine,
shouldering a bright blue backpack, watches as his neighbor’s house burns.
The morning sun plays at the edges of the scene:
delineates the boy, the houses, the burning bloom of dogwood trees.
The azalea’s careless blossoms frame the boy’s face as he watches
a gray shadow bloom [...]

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Our wolf wakes up with a start, certain for a second that the day is about to spring into action like a startled lamb in its wooly, cloudless world. His head is cocked, his eyes wide open — he looks around the room, slowly. Nothing moves; the air is palpable and slightly unpleasant. There is [...]

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Dear friend, I’d like to to tell you
how much I like your wit,
your company, our banter. I think,
how clever, that you always knew
that we would be okay.
I always trusted you.
But now I feel that too much has been said;
what do we need of their conclusions?
Now, as before, it’s only you and me;
and when I think [...]

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My life has the ephemeral, illegitimate quality of a long series of love affairs carried out in secreted rooms of unnamed hotels in anonymous cities.† I forsake the life that is legitimately mine for some fancy of imagination or circumstance.† The problem in all of this being that it will inevitably end.† I dread that [...]

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I wish humans could go through life and not think, and not feel, and not wonder or like people or not like people.† I wish we did not have a sense of self to lose or acquire, as these things happen.† I wish I did not have to lose you every Friday, just to find [...]

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