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Winter 1985 • Vol. VII No. 1 • Poetry |

Honeymoon, All Soul’s

“See, my life is a kind of distraction and dispersal . . . I have been spilled
and scattered among times whose order I do not know.”

                     SAINT AUGUSTINE

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Ancestral Farmhouse

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White, slope-shouldered, falling away in shade as the land falls, windows half-shuttered, odd glassy eyes in the cool morning of fogs.   Already have an account? Log in Join KR […]

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