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/When Dante laughed or hung his mouth open in concentration, you could see the sharp edge where the false teeth ended and the darkness that led to his stomach began.
Read MoreWhen Dante laughed or hung his mouth open in concentration, you could see the sharp edge where the false teeth ended and the darkness that led to his stomach began.
Read MoreI leaned in to listen to how they remembered the dying back when they had been alive together. I anticipated grieving myself; I had called the adoption agency.
Read More“‘The next time she saw him, he was sitting under a cypress tree in her garden. She thought he was stone like the statues in Antioch. Mary looked out at him and she could hardly move, he was so beautiful. She clothed herself in the raiments of Damascus—’
‘In what?’”
Read More“She reached toward him, and he took her hand again. Both were aware how thin and loose the skin on her hand felt, like onion-skin paper wrapped about a little cage of bone.”
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