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Summer 2000 • Vol. XXII No. 3/4 • Poetry |

Adam Imagines Moving

By John Engels

One gets used to everything,
it’s painful to recognize
the skill we have at it

what we really desire
is to be alive in somebody’s eyes
we line up to be remembered

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He’s dead: I never wished him that,my single charity. He’s paidfor everything, fought hard, with courage,was, in the horror of his final week,fearful and in pain, from what quite possiblywas […]

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