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Gail Hanlon

Poetry

Fall 2013

Future Perfect

By Gail Hanlon

Following the birds to the vanishing point, empty sky. Nothing happens but everything happens inside it. Scrying where there is nothing to see. Look! the Nepali clerk says, Your change! […]

Poetry

Fall 2013

For Love

By Gail Hanlon

If you are the querent you must learn to trust a woman in a doorway too far away to see without punctuation   ▪ ▪ I'm trying to explain the situation—my English […]