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Julia Randall

Poetry

Autumn/ November 1968

Loving

By Julia Randall

I tried to find you in the tongues of my body, along the walls of my heart, baled in the cords of my eyes, or bound in my brain’s knot. […]

A Gathering of Poems

Spring 1984

Video Games

By Julia Randall

In Claude Lorrain, the trees win every time. The violent spots of color are a game. The dragon’s blood, the swordplay on the shore, the embarkation of the fleet across […]