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Winter 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 1 • Poetry |

The Washing

By Dana Levin

Everyone’s got their massacre site just around the corner.
—Jim Landale, Hague Spokesman, Kosovo

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Dana Levin
Dana Levin is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), which was a finalist for the Rilke Prize. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in Saint Louis.

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Zozo-ji

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Buddhist temple, Tokyo     One cry from a lone bird over a misted river is the expression of grief,     in Japanese. Let women do what they need.     And afterward knit a […]

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