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Terri Witek

Poetry

Spring 2005

Stomacher: 1740s

By Terri Witek

Put on a front and you're a man with a codpiece, but pin this stiff false pubis under bare breasts and you become one-stop shopping for appetite, though the English […]

Poetry

Spring 2005

Carriage Lamp with Wasps

By Terri Witek

Besting woodpeckers who fray the tarred tips of phone poles, a globe topping tin pipe makes a stylized lollipop. All day, sweetness is light. Fat caterpillars work the curved white […]