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Poetry

Summer/Fall 1999

At St. Sulpice

By Erin Belieu

Because the mind is forever building its model airplane: locust hum of colored Bakelite, blue lobelia in a hairy root-ball, plastic bags snapping open, and unkind comments up from Florida, […]

Poetry

Summer/Fall 1999

Chest for Arrows

By Erin Belieu

—on the execution of Ann Boleyn An educated schemer, will of silver, six digits concealed inside a doeskin glove—and yet how gracious when they came to take your head, the […]