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Sign on the guest-room door in Hampi India

After check-in pleasevisit the policeat Virupaksha Temple (five-minute wack) Beware with strangersYour bag, your responsible (outside the room)Have nice stay with usAnd please do not wonderalone in the night

NOTICEdANNE LÉVESQUE

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We won’t really know what happened on that Sunday until we know why it happened: houses under water, sailors hanged from cell phone towers, shadows rolling in and rolling out like waves. In one version of the story, the birds remained upright all night, monstrous leaves convulsing around them. In a later version, strict rules governed who could touch blood. In yet another version, machines shed the palest blues – and something else. Call it a halo.

A Long String of VowelsHOWIE GOOD

Its funny how we can love in the dusk,When the bats go past and don’t bother with usIts funny how we can love in the dusk,Leaning against cars and the false idea of understandingIts funny how it was a soft easy time and could be cautiously called‘good’, ‘well,’ and slightly ‘valorous’ in a pejorative world so secular But its funny how its not really love in the dusk,Not really

SOFT AND SLIGHTLY VALOROUSBRIAN MICHAEL BARBEITO

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Its funny how we can love in the dusk,When the bats go past and don’t bother with usIts funny how we can love in the dusk,Leaning against cars and the false idea of understandingIts funny how it was a soft easy time and could be cautiously called‘good’, ‘well,’ and slightly ‘valorous’ in a pejorative world so secular But its funny how its not really love in the dusk,Not really

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It’s said that Rodin had sex with all of his subjects--nymphs, kissers, burghers, thinkers.No use asking if this includes still-lifes.Rodin didn’t do still-lifes.

WHAT RODIN DIDBOB BROOKS

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you told me michelangelo slept overstayed awake all night paintingthe sistine chapel over your hands, your handsbuzzing a waltz in time to the tattoo needles, you said thatsure: your world is still litter, bus transfers, stale beer, flat light, a rented roomwith walls the colour of a hospital bracelet but nowevery where you touch becomes the dome of the sky.

reinventionCHLOE BURNS

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