She is used to this sort of thing.
Her blacks crackle and drag.

—Sylvia Plath, "Edge"

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Sometimes the Birds, at Random by Sonya Taaffe

After the Mistress of the Copper Mountain by Rose Lemberg

Cape Evans by Michele Bannister

Proserpina, Going Deeper by Jack Hollis Marr

The Crane Wife by Brittany Warman

Myrrha by Mari Ness

Last Letters by Sonya Taaffe

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And this blank page where my fingers move.

—Ted Hughes, "The Thought-Fox"

October 20th, 2014