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Front Cover:
     Still Baling
Inside Front Cover:
     Window View

Sequence
Extraction
Untitled
Portrait of el guía
Stones in Pockets
Dans la Rue
Uselessly
Whale
Stars
Untitled
Morgue, Cite Soleil
'Ninety-five
 disappearing
Mazing
Woman with a Beard
Untitled
New Edition of For Sisyphus           Released
Archetypes
Sun Daze
Deciduous Decay

Inside Back Cover:
     Dolce Far Niente
Back Cover:
     It's Maritime!
         
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Sequence

Jennifer Lewis



A dozen fruit soak crimson
skins in pools of fading light.
I hesitate, then bite:  a burst
of sweetness ripe, a farmer’s
satisfaction.

This apple bears
a faceless name.  It jars
the brain to think of where it grew,
from whom it came, and
what it knew.

Before the crop, before the hoard,
before the feast and the revelry, came chores;
to till the hardened fields, troll
for oily mackerel.  Hunt and gut
the boar.

And save the apple core.

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