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Jane Adair: Memento Mori

i Some things are best unseen. The crippled buck in the avenue. Turn away. Turn away from X-rays. From the vial of your own drawn blood, from aphids that filigree … Continue reading

March 14, 2016 · 1 Comment

Jane Adair: Coda to a Marriage

This room with its complaining floorboards, rushing spigots, soft latch of doors, the blackness of dawn before dawn with its sharps and flats, a discordant jay’s first recitative of the … Continue reading

February 23, 2016 · 12 Comments

Jane Adair: Broken Spring

I’m doing my best to clip him in the jaw, to knock him flat, but each punch checks, softens, the instant before impact. He’d changed his mind – like that … Continue reading

February 15, 2016 · 3 Comments

Jane Adair: Wishbone

For my own good mother cracks me on the face, sends me into the meaty arms of my stepfather— the one who usually says Stop— but today returns me with … Continue reading

January 25, 2016 · 5 Comments

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