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Jeffery Eugenides is the author of the novel The Virgin Suicides. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review and Granta.
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by Graham Foust
April 7, 2021
To sing’s to field thought’s
failed arrow, then drop it,
as sadness surprises,
as always, then doesn’t,
its record all rumors, bits
of lithic in its meat,
failed arrow, then drop it,
as sadness surprises,
as always, then doesn’t,
its record all rumors, bits
of lithic in its meat,
March 31, 2021
Underneath the electric microscope frass gathered like a word no one could pronounce, or something children left in a cage. Sugar ants were gorging on the corpse of a cicada next to the front door. Soon four golden mounds were theirs, to carry back in their lemony bellies to the queen. I have a box of nine suns set on spikes, a pair of gray bags concealing speakers. I am your teacher, said the teacher, alone in a room. If there is a predicate to this.
March 24, 2021
A hole in the sky
is what it looks like. Something that will be replaced
by color, which is a kind of
false answer, and yet the only real truth
in this world. The only “real truth”
by which I mean
forgiving. Fog is made virtually
is what it looks like. Something that will be replaced
by color, which is a kind of
false answer, and yet the only real truth
in this world. The only “real truth”
by which I mean
forgiving. Fog is made virtually
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