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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
“The Afterlife: In the Summer House” by Susanna Mishler
Susanna Mishler
THE AFTERLIFE: IN THE SUMMER HOUSE
A scrap of canvas tacked to the kitchen wall
reads, in Russian and English:
AT THE DARK TIME
PULL OUT THE CORD.
A slim arrow points toward
some lost device that shifts now
in a north coast ice pack, or
was crushed and swallowed
by a flock of Arctic terns
and migrates from pole to pole in
thousands of [...]
