Summer 2000


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Cornelius Eady
A small story which involves me
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Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man's Footsteps #21
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Moses' Cradle
William Heyen
Walden
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The woman who falls in love with the Dead
Jim Tyack
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William Heyen

WALDEN
Henry Thoreau in a helicopter passes over

Yankee Stadium where eighty-year-old ex-

President Jack Kennedy tosses out the first ball,

a world teeming with plants hosting insects

in whose intestines our Milky Way is one of countless

clusters in the eye of Time.... "Moose, Indian,"

Henry mutters. The copter reverses its blades

& retrogresses to the point of disappearance....

 

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