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Mazurka
Self-Portrait
Relig na mban
Eureka
Twelve Days into January
Under-Pass
Like a Virgin; or, On Madonnas
Suisio, July
My Backyard
On Beethoven's Sonata, Op.81a
Fade to Black
Passing Fascination
Shifting View of Window
Soiled Yogi
Thinking of Toledo
Protrusion
Storytelling in Grotte di Castellana
DeGrazia's Doors
The Sorrowful Mysteries
Dawn of Dante
Little Hope
Triptych
Self-Portrait 2
Zow Gow
Anthroarachnonet
A Breasted Experience
A Hat in Bath

Front Cover:
Side Door, Holy Trinity
            Episcopal Church,
            Philadelphia

Inside Front Cover:
Together

Inside Back Cover:
Femke

Back Cover:
Monkey Toes

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Mazurka

Brianna L. Noll

 

He discovered the dance,
the girl, both products of
Mazovia, province
of Poland.

Her heartbeat, the weak beats
called to him—dotted eighths
regular, circular—
for accent.

They danced, his ear to her
pulse points, prompting each step—
the foot stamp, the heel click,
and the turn.

Allegretto they whorled
around the floor, threading
spatial gaps with their sound—
clip clop clip—

punctuated by trills,
triplets and turns. This one
was Chopin; he could tell
by the tone.

This is mazurka,
a love story set in
a Polish province, in
triple time.

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