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Courtney Angela Brkic

Fiction

Spring 2006

Departure

By Courtney Angela Brkic

She will be all right if she can just catch the tails of her thoughts, so like the pinkish “white S’s of wriggling mice. They’re like meteors. Like a grainy […]

Poetry

Summer 2004

Death and I

By Antun Branko Simic, translated by Courtney Angela Brkic

From the Croatian.   Death is not outside of me. She is in me from the very beginning: growing with me at every moment                          One day I halt                          but she […]