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Home / Stranger’s Hand in Your Pocket

Stranger’s Hand in Your Pocket

by Karl Krolow
Issue #38
Winter 1985
These days lights come on earlier everywhere in the dark. But the time's too short to see you, that white of your eye. Love's like breath in the air at a mouth opened by astonishment. I feel your hand in...

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