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Christopher Matthews

Christopher Matthews teaches in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in Copper Nickel, The Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere.

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By Christopher Matthews

Upstairs the frisk of scissors, the high, sword-in-scabbard soundof scissors / is scissors, frisking happily through fabric, i.e., the kidmaking things / March, and the air has no one in […]