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Sarah Lindsay

Poetry

Summer 2002

Morning on Despina

By Sarah Lindsay

Lioness morning falls on Despina. The island shrinks in the heat. Warmed, the caterpillars in green heaps uncurl, disengage, take up their threads and file back to their round. And […]

Poetry

Summer 2002

Neoteny

By Sarah Lindsay

Unlike tadpoles, big-eyed and wiggly, or bat babies with snub puppy faces and skins of helpless velvet, the island was born red-faced and belching, hunchbacked, shifty, sharp and hot all […]