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Unmasked at Saks

  The Weakness By Toi Derricotte That time my grandmother dragged me through the perfume aisles at Saks, she held me up by my arm, hissing, “Stand up,” through clenched teeth, her eyes bright as a dog’s cornered in the light. She said it over and over, as if she were Jesus, and I were […]

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A request to take notice

  Town Water   by Michael Heffernan     There always ought to be a willingness to receive the roadside’s offering of flowers   to be brought home and put in fruit-juice glasses on the windowsill above the kitchen sink   so we can stand there and admire alien beauty the like of which we […]

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