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Jan/Feb 2020 • Vol. XLII No. 1 • Of Today |

Sovereign Silence, or the City

By Roger Reeves

Empathy will not end
Genocide. It won’t
Even delay it. There:

The children running from napalm into the palm of our vision.

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Which Was to Come

By Roger Reeves

The shrews leaping in the underbrush, they must smell death Upon me as I smell death upon me, though I’ve washed the Lord’s Grime from beneath my nails and feet, […]

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