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Mar/Apr 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 2 • Poetry |

When I Was a Girl

By Nick Flynn

When I was a girl, climbing outside my
body, every eye I

felt, my legs no longer
mine. A circle

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Nick Flynn is the author of Some Ether (Graywolf Press, 2000). The poems in this issue are from his latest book, Blind Huber, due out from Graywolf this year. He is a recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Twinned

By Nick Flynn

To exist wholly in another, seamless, mirrored. Think of the hive, at each turn we find ourselves, not a version, not a replica, but our whole selves. Love, you claim, […]

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Workers (foragers)

By Nick Flynn

                   After this seven- month slumber, honey-stupored & warm, we unfold our wings, shake off the hive, set out for buckwheat & the low flowers of spring. We work ourselves ragged, […]

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