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Volume 09 Number 3

Gabrielle Selz
Listening

In The Print Issue:

Peter Handke
Absence

Cauldio Magris
Music Lessons

Harold Brodkey
Spring 1989

Ruth Zernova
Orna the Lab Technician

Lisa Poneck
Better Homes
The Scroll of Esther

Bruce Robinson
Hitting to Right

Ezra Zonana
The Smell of My Fingers

Mitchell Levenberg
Soup

Deborah Joy Corey
A Private Place to Be

Lia Smith
At Birth

Matthew Sharpe
The Diplomat

Siri Hustvedt
Houdini

Urs Widmer
Portrait of My Parents as a Young Couple

Mark Jay Mirsky
A Mother's Ark

Listening

by Gabrielle Selz

He takes me down through the declivity in the hills, down through the canyon, down so fast I can see my cheeks in the review mirror of his motorcycle, I can see my cheeks flap back in the wind. At ninety-five miles per hour the skin on my face is stretched and pulling behind me, pulling behind the bones and cartilage of me. I lean forward and lay my cheek against his back.

I can't speak.

Once I fell asleep sitting behind him, but we were going maybe only eighty miles per hour then.

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