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issue no. 2, spring 2001
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The Skin Magician Confesses

I want to be more like my brother,
how he loses himself to trance.
As a child, in the playroom,
I hypnotized him with a bowstring...

by Susan Chambers

Brother

he is one of those people
who misses everything...

by Gayle Leyton
Palatino

Feeling well-defended, I tender him the poem
about our father, the one about the night he
stood on a chair. Then my brother, showing...

by Susan Terris




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