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Mona Van Duyn

Fiction

Autumn 1945

The Bell

By Mona Van Duyn

Second Prize, 1945 Prize Contest    If Mother were less large, or if the whole front room were not already filled with Mother’s things, each with its value or its […]

Poetry

Summer 1944

Paratrooper

By Mona Van Duyn

From the dark side, feet first, breech birth, the fighter fallsand O the babe is small among perihelionsand his first breath crawls like a worm through impersonal countriesof no sins, […]