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Saturday, July 4th, 2009
“On the Day of the Translation Workshop” by Alicia Casey
Alicia Casey
ON THE DAY OF TRANSLATION WORKSHOP
Oscar is gone. He is gone. Lost to speed
on a highway we never saw him dare
in daylight. I repeat: He will never come home.
I see him as a kitten, fitting inside my palm,
a comma, growing into his question-mark tail.
He lapped the lips of bottled beers. I can’t write
those nights [...]
