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Summer 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 3 • Poetry |

For the Assassins

By Karl Kirchwey

                           (Air-India Flight 182, June 23, 1985)

A young helicopter
pilot feathers his star
of rotors, jumps down and, across the whining air,

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