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Joan Murray

Poetry

Spring 2006

Funnel

By Joan Murray

Today I couldn’t think of funnel—though I could see them—two of them—nesting inside each otheron the butcher-block top of the dishwasher.My husband was at the table with a gallon of […]

A Kenyon Review Collage: Later Lives

Spring 1996

Stop the Car

By Joan Murray

"Stop the car—is that a deer?— that oval shape with two large ears." A deer's head—periscoped above the chest-high grass on the hillcrest that the local folks call Tony's Nose. […]