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Martha Zweig

Poetry

Spring 1998

Hypnagogic

By Martha Zweig

Thank you. I slept so comfortably that upon awakening in a brief racket of the birds I slept at once a second time, & so on. Human beings lost their […]

Poetry

Spring 1998

Sick Day

By Martha Zweig

Mama, I came down pup-sick among the bureaucrats! Inside my skin I felt fever choose me the way shame regularly used to, on the playground. Home, rumple-bedded, I keep stumbling […]