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Don’t Flinch
Adrienne Rich
‘Lichen-green lines of shingle pulsate and waver / when you lift your eyes. It’s the glare.’
Drama Lessons for Young Girls
Tara Bergin
‘So the young girls, / cast as naughty young girls from the Acropolis, / left – / just with some things missing.’
Eight pieces in imitation of Thomas A. Clark
Matthew Welton
‘what it is about the earth / that it won’t absorb the stream’
Einstein on the Beach
Hugh Seidman
‘So many thugs in any century how crush them all? / All passports stamped for the underworld’
Elegy
Sean O’Brien
‘It seems there's no such thing as history. / We must have dreamed the world you've vanished from.’
Eliphaz
Raven Leilani
‘I sent messages in nine point font / arcing through the Internet, asking him / do you believe in our heavenly Father?’
End of the Pier Show
Michael Hofmann
‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’
