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C. D. Wright

Poetry

Spring 1991

The Box This Comes In

By C. D. Wright

The box this comes in is not beautiful, at least it is not aggressively beautiful, meaning the workmanship, as it was formerly called–regardless of who took up the tools, but […]

Poetry

Spring 1991

The Provisional Life

By C. D. Wright

The weavers let down their blinds against the sun’s brass blare. A woman framed in a window looks over the terraced tiles drinking soup from a cup. She has turned […]