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Jeannine Savard

Poetry

Summer 1990

Gauze Landing

By Jeannine Savard

A long window stretches her face Against the city sky. She's running In her see-through down the dark Iron fire escape. Her lover throws caviar And ice shavings through the […]

Poetry

Summer 1990

The Hospital Room

By Jeannine Savard

Charges ran through her arm and jumped Across the walls to the window Like lizards gliding with blooded vines Into the shade. The glass cracked in two, Parted-broken mercury under […]