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Summer 1994 • Vol. XVI No. 3 • Poetry |

Our Breast

By Judith Kroll

for Alicia Ostriker 

Coming back to this place in the mountains, after a year—
late August, and throughout the whole monsoon

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Borrowed Gods

By Judith Kroll

“Juu-dee,” my neighbor calls, opening my window, peering into the room where I’m at my table, writing. “Juu-dee, are you busy?” she calls, “I need to borrow couple gods.” It’s […]

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The Beheaded

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Once the world has reached a state of stability, it continues to exist, depending for its sustenance on destruction, on burning, on devouring. The cosmic sacrifice expresses this constant process, […]

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