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Edward Nobles

Poetry

Winter 2000

Through a Drop of Rain

By Edward Nobles

        I saw the crow         through a drop         of rain, my face         pressed toward it         against the glass.         Its perfect         shape         rocked up and         down         in its need.         In my soul, […]

Poetry

Winter 2000

Fissure

By Edward Nobles

The light, broken by a branch, collapses through the barn, one side to the other. One pine falters, then spreads its wings against the wood—both forms miraculously planed into a […]