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Fog Angels Ciara Shuttleworth Fog sways up the avenues like everything lost ghosting back in dreams. Wisps, then the edges of houses and streetlamps smoking, seducing. We are all angelic in the dim smolder. Wings clipped and limbs that lean, tilt in memory of flight. Neon and brick warmed to softness, city blocks that seem one big feather bed we can’t help but fall into. Tatteredfeatured creatures, sinewy from endless hills: even we yield our rough edges to the romance of the caress. How can we resist what we’ve become? 47
Flawed Apertures Ciara Shuttleworth All the rooms look empty from here. High ceilings of lit rooms all the way up—the glowing yellow squares that mean dinner, TV, someone home even if I can’t see them. But down here I see so many faces that few register correctly. A block goes by and the grotesque gaping mouth at a dinner table was not a burning man but laughter. A woman uses her drink napkin to dab tears from both eyes before setting it back down, and then her drink. I can see a stream of taxis and I wonder if once I’m gone I’ll equate so much noise with the color yellow. I wonder if the rooms look empty from up there, too, or if this woman’s does or if I walk by the bar window again I’ll see her smile at the burning man approaching and realize she was only fixing her makeup and her windows are dark because she hasn’t been home yet or doesn’t intend to go home tonight. She loves his terrible laugh because it makes her feel flushed. We get so close before passing we could be lovers, any two of us on the street tonight heading to or from dark windows that hold so much we look instead to the empty squares of brightness, moths all of us, ceiling-drawn, fluttering our wings against each other for warmth. 48 <strong>THAT</strong>
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Fishers of Men Donald Mitchell Supp
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I Won’t Forget You, Everett Sloan
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