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Alexander Thorburn

Poetry

Spring 1997

The Piñata

By Alexander Thorburn

The landscape always enters here,  my sister says of the mirror … In its silvered glass, she stares at the garden and the soft tamperings of the wind as it […]

Poetry

Spring 1997

The Woods

By Alexander Thorburn

A flower is a speaker, I tell my sister. A music we cannot hear appears upon the feet of bees. Oh how much I would love to listen to it […]