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Edison Jennings

Poetry

Autumn 2005

Feeding the Fire

By Edison Jennings

Down the chute the coal chunks come, black and brittle from time's press, packed with essence of dim forests, funk of flora, fungiforms, relics of the Paleozoic destined for my […]

Poetry

Autumn 2005

Nectar

By Edison Jennings

Sometimes I find them when I'm dusting, dead bees on the windowsill where they had beat against the pane, a thin translucent mystery that barred them from the garden, the […]