Fugue 39 - Summer/Fall 2010 (No. 39)

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CAROLINA EBEID

LANDSCAPE WITH AND WITHOUT THE WORD LOVE for Kevin Powers

Who knows why, napping in the make-shift barricade with a book that covered the sun, the soldier woke then. Or maybe he didn't wake but dreamt the girl carrying an oversized stuffed animal of a royal shade.

She walked behind her uncles, the beekeepers.

The quiet days ran into one another, blurred in the color of saw-dust, o r the dry straw-guts of the scarecrow he could have become. Everything

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