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Meg Tyler

Poetry

Winter 1999

Emissary

By Meg Tyler

for Uriel When you ask me why Raffaello died what can I tell you but he consigned himself to flying. There was nothing in the sky that week to warn […]

Poetry

Winter 1999

Impiety

By Meg Tyler

After many quiet days, he decided—as simply as turning down the covers for the night—to let gothis body forever, so she would know what that felt like, too:an awakening, the […]

Poetry

Winter 1999

The Good-Bye

By Meg Tyler

What made me feel most powerlesswas the way your death fell in line with the seasons, as if you were only an individual leaf turning, mostly imperceptible, mostly wind. Afterwardsthey […]