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Summer 1993 • Vol. XV No. 3 • Poetry |

Don Giovanni in Hell

By Eric Pankey

1. To the Reader

The owl and bell betray the hour.
This is my kingdom beyond boredom,
In which I am subject and object.

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Eric Pankey is the author of many collections of poetry, most recently Not Yet Transfigured (Orison Books, 2021). A chapbook called The Future Perfect: A Fugue is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Pankey is the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University.

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Ice on the pines.                             Cold Realm of geometry: Stark verticals against A shadow-anchored mountain.                               : : A moment dilates.                               Takes on mass. Fog lags as tangled dark matter. Rocky edges, […]

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