Soon

At first he seemed plump and quick but simply arrested,the chipmunk lying sidelong on the terrace flagstoneas if taking a nap. Butterflies sipped at his fur.Their wings, black with coppery…

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Palaces

A city with a knife in its heart,nerves exposed, arteries dangling, its temples to kingship,religion, learning and artbegrimed, and pockmarked by bullets,or spruced, sand-blasted and lacqueredto face the new market…

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Halo

1. In the desert, a halo around the sun, a vast, prismed diskwith within it another smaller though still huge second circle,of a slightly darker hue, the furnacing glare precisely…

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Mantis

1. What in the name of anything on earth was I doing crawling behind a billboard next to a bakerya few blocks from the grammar school I attended then which…

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