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Lynn Emanuel

Poetry

Summer 1990

Domestic Violence

By Lynn Emanuel

The night dark as her closet with its big, lonely woolens. In the kitchen a piece of pork is hissing in a black pan, oiled in its own fat, pink […]

Poetry

Summer 1990

The Planet Krypton

By Lynn Emanuel

Outside the window the McGill smelter sent a red dust down on the smoking yards of copper, on the railroad tracks' frayed ends disappearing into the congestion of the afternoon. […]