In Vietnam, a squatting lady
dunks limes
in the sewer, sidelong
checks the street,
rubs them to a sheen
against her sleeve.
I watch behind the hotel
curtain.
Next door, on the ledge,
splayed pigeons
dry on clotheslines
like fruit bats.
Hanoi. I love its filth.
For you and me,
the denouement.
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Issue 69
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Editor's Note
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POETRY
- Ace Boggess
- David Bottoms
- Melissa Crowe
- Gregory Djanikian
- Allison Donohue
- Susan Grimm
- Scott Hightower
- Henry Kearney, IV
- Cindy King
- Stephen Knauth
- Nina Lindsay
- Marissa Simone McNamara
- Catherine Pond
- Emily Ransdell
- Adam Scheffler
- David Starkey
- Phil Timpane
- Sally Van Doren
- Martha Webster
- Abigail Wender
- Bruce Willard
- Mark Zelman
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FICTION
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ESSAY
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REVIEW
- David Rigsbee reviews Incomplete Strangers
by Robert McNamara
- David Rigsbee reviews Incomplete Strangers