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The Awl
The Awl in The Awl
Aug 3, 2017 · 1 min read

A Poem by Maggie Smith

Poor Sheep

Who sheared the fog from the mountains?
They’re bleating, nearly bald,
huddled together at the horizon.
Or I’m reading too much
into the landscape again. Projecting,
as if playing a recorded image of myself
on the screen of terrain. I am…

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The Awl
The Awl in The Awl
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

A Poem by Kate Colby

Integer*

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Wind can’t move the light
only what’s in front of it.

Stirring shadow-
shaped leaves

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The Awl
The Awl in The Awl
Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

A Poem by Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Mount of the Dead Men

Sculptor left your stone eyes blank. But you were busy looking someplace else.

No dancing girl, Mohenjo Daro, terra cotta, Indian Jazz Baby, Twenties flapper contraband for bobbed hair alone.

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The Awl
The Awl in The Awl
Jul 13, 2017 · 1 min read

Economic System Bad

Did you ever think that maybe a relentless scheme of pervasive exploitation might…

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The Awl
The Awl in The Awl
Jul 13, 2017 · 3 min read

A Poem by Elizabeth Hoover

Potamology

I. Assorted Facts About Rivers

drive southward (except one)
lack relics
follow salt
exist in imagination and myth as well as in mud and mineral
hard to integrate into the mind because of continuity, edacity…

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