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Poetry

Understanding, silent, they stand near. / Their patience is our shield. Beyond desire / their touch steadies us, and where fear / would make us turn they guide our feet, fire / like an emptiness burning them to love.

—from “In The Keeping Of Angels”

By Cedar KoonsApril 1987

Poetry

Forgetting

By Lou LipsitzMarch 1987

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