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Richard Dankleff

Poetry

Winter 1996

Whittaker

By Richard Dankleff

Our Jamaican fireman got two letters in Santos, which he tore up small and flushed. The photographs disappeared from his locker door. Their soggy shreds may warn the ocean's bottom-feeders […]

Poetry

Autumn/ November 1969

Three A.M.

By Richard Dankleff

She filled her glass and wavered by the sink. He poked burned toast crumbs. They watched an ashtray smoke. Stupid with regret he heard their ruthless talk now utterly destroy […]