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Living Room 8.
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Living Room 7 Video.
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May 2010
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Swimming in Lanes Five and Six by Marisa Crawford
Swimming in Lanes Five and Six
Emily Dickinson chipped my tooth with her head while I was breathing under my left arm and she was sloppily coming out of her flip-turn. I found forty bound fascicles of poems in her locker. She told me the combination once. She told me to use leave-in conditioner.
They said Emily resembled a large white moth in a red swimming cap, practicing her butterfly. She...
Pachyderm by Marisa Crawford
Pachyderm
She liked the sad circus songs, love songs, songs about babies and their mothers, enormous with memory, reaching their trunks through the bars of their cages. When she heard them, her fingers ached at the tips. They did what they were trained to do. Folded in her folding chair, pretending there wasn’t an elephant in the room.
It’s called a trunk and you heave it. You pack it full and...
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Poem from Upcoming Reader Molly Prentiss →
April 2010
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the living room reading series facebook group →
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art that can be seen in the living room →