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Author: Nilufar Gordon

The Tollund Man: A Definition of the Soul

May 28, 2020 Nilufar Gordon 1 Comment

The dead man who lay there was two thousand years old. A few hours earlier he had been brought out…

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Starmount Forest Prologue

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“… I sang in my chains like the sea” I knew the world globedbut like the Hebrew children before me,thought…

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Tethered Child

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For mothers are the first educators, the first mentors; and truly it is the mothers who determine the happiness, the…

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Taking a Bird Apart

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nestledin my handa birdwaits; its feathersare red and bluetinged with whiteand I pull themfrom its wingsone by one; they slide…

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All I Have to Show After Camping Out for Two Thousand Miles and Taking Notes on Wrappers

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In the starladen night of the Gila Wildernessin the mountains of of New MexicoI saw my own death creep spiderlikeand…

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Necromancy

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for NaVirginia Rebecca Southall Hatcher (1867 1951) If I hold my breathtill I get to the cornerand step on each…

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Inheritance

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Poor Hera diminished by a verdictfrom the unknown shepherd boy,sought vengeancethe devastation of Priam’s house,of Hector whom we all loved,of…

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Hemingway’s House in Key West

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More of a change than any loss of virginity. Fear gone like an operation. Hemingway at 63he matter-of-factlyslid his big…

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El Metro, 1961

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In the white tiledsubways of Madridremnants of the Guerra Civil,bare trunks of men,dwell like baroque statuarybartering their looksfor my pesetas.…

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Downtown St. Louis on Your Birthday

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for Albert S. Hatcher (1904-1980) 1 years tumble nowlike water loosedfrom damsof sticks and mudin forest creekbedsthat cradledfrail dreams; these…

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