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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMy only satisfaction: how quickly it covers the road in, the road out. If you make me love you or hate you , she said, the tentacles are the same . Who talks like that? Whose ankles wade in green among the snakes? Mine?...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 25, Issue 4)JOHN BENSKO's books of poetry include Green Soldiers (Yale) and The Waterman's Children (Massachusetts), as well as The Iron City, forthcoming soon from the University of Illinois Press. He teaches in the M.F.A. program...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJOHN BENSKO has published three books of poetry, most recently The Iron City (University of Illinois, 2000). Sea Dogs, a collection of stories, is forthcoming next spring from Graywolf In the distance the yellow...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStanding outside late from school I leaned to the cage of birds, the bars shining in the sunlight and the green-and-yellow bodies flitting perch to perch, with no sound coming through the glass. Could they see me? I...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 32, Issue 4)Dawn The sun didn't mind our handing the revolutions back from earth to itself, so we could say and believe once more, It rose this morning. We allowed the horizon's gray clouds to decide on a pale cerulean sky. Many...
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From:Southwest ReviewPeer-ReviewedI fear elegance. Maybe it's from my childhood. My grandmother Helene, for whom I was named, would take me onto her rocking chair on the wide front porch of her house in Apalachicola and I would gaze into the black lace...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 86, Issue 3)After a portrait of Madame Recamier by Jacques-Louis David, 1800 Looking at us through the prism of her own interiority, the almond-sliver of her face alert, intelligent, she has the rich interior, what Freud tried...