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Donald Finkel

Poetry

Winter 1989

Campus Dogs

By Donald Finkel

The dachshund yaps from his back yard till I’m past, then a few valedictory epithets (convinced of the power of his curse, unequivocal as Pan’s, before which hardened veterans pissed […]

Poetry

Winter 1989

At Roxy’s Topless

By Donald Finkel

For Cinnamon Because she chortled like a sibyl at my question, perched naked as a number on the edge of the table, smoothing the wadded dollars, singing through the din […]