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Dave Smith

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In her hand the knife, brisk, brilliant as moon-claw, …

Dave Smith

At the drycleaners I stand in line, my feet …

Dave Smith

Here they stood, whom the Kecoughtan first believed …

Dave Smith

The sun frets, a fat wafer falling like a trap of failed mesh. …

Dave Smith

Nobody knows exactly when it fell off the map …

Dave Smith

It was not kindness, but I was only buckle-high in the door. …

Dave Smith

There was a fire in the night. …

Dave Smith

He can only drink tea now, screwed and filed. …

Dave Smith

At dawn wind out of the north, hailflecks, pebbly …

Dave Smith

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