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SNAKES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA by Michael Lawson
Coach Mac told us as we sweltered on the sideline and the freshmen practiced tackling how the heat drove snakes into the cool steel tubes on his father’s construction sites in Burma, taipans coiled inside the rifled hollows, vipers slunk down the silvery lengths; how when the chatting workers tipped the tubes upright the snake…
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STINGING NETTLE by Hanae Jonas
—Thing to get down to: a rich interior life. I understand this is funny—already I’ve gotten intimate about my wreck. Everyone’s heard something from me about sex, but what about his body, prone, fermenting on the bathroom floor? Wouldn’t sleep in our bed out of guilt—maybe a need to be alone with…
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ISO by Sophie Klahr
wanted: a width, a girth. vessel me, burden me, break me into bearing: take this sluice to be swollen, worn, heavy in gait, o give me a heft to hold…
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