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Blackbirds in a Parking Lot, Southern California

by Christopher Buckley
Issue #47
Winter 1988
How little they ask of the stale winds of traffic— even of the picked-over plots of dirt, the pyracanthas whose sun-red berries will not reappear for months. And so they range on the crust of faith at the edge of...

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