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Poetry

Summer/ Autumn 1997

Summer Storm

By Laurie Sheck

And stay with us for this late-breaking story, said the voice,   but I was listening to the laughter of the storm, alchemical and soaring,   wild afterthought unraveling the flat sunlight. […]

Poetry

Summer/ Autumn 1997

Wall-Writing

By Laurie Sheck

The busyness of these walls. The scrawls on them,   the names and peeling posters. DOREEN. TRAGIC MAGIC. ARE YOU THERE? I am walking where the city splits from its glossy […]