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EXCAVATING by Tingyu Liu
Not-knowing, the last of the last times slipped past us like small ships—no memory of the last hand within hand, the last curving against curve, the last naming, the last receptor clasping and unclasping—the last trace of us traveling from spine to mind, axons to dendrites—a relay of loss. If we took every fish and…
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SNAKES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA by Michael Lawson
Coach Mac told us as we sweltered on the sideline and the freshmen practiced tackling how the heat drove snakes into the cool steel tubes on his father’s construction sites in Burma, taipans coiled inside the rifled hollows, vipers slunk down the silvery lengths; how when the chatting workers tipped the tubes upright the snake…
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