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The Fifth Season

by Fran Lindsay
Issue #16
Spring 1979
There was sun on the cobwebs this morning, brick exposed on an unfixed wall. Your bright hands opened with names for each thing you touched. You let go of your palms’ fourth lines. The clouds that you wanted opened like...

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