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Rikki Ducornet
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Rikki Ducornet
The author of fourteen books of fiction, Rikki Ducornet has received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and a Literature Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novella The Plotinus and her novel Trafik will both publish in 2021 with Coffee House Press. A writer and a painter, her novels are published in over a dozen languages and her paintings exhibited internationally. Her work is featured in The International Enclopedia of Surrealism, published May 2019 in London with Bloomsbury Books.

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Vol. 80
Ways of Water
Spring 2023
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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September 20, 2023
The Rachel stands tuned  
            to multiplicities, 
aslant in a territory of longing,
            where she becomes foreign.

            What has she found?
She listens, acknowledges another sound,
            diffuse, multiple,  
pulsing thought, oscillations, whisperings,
            never only one.
September 13, 2023
I had yet to discover the source of that star, it came and it passed but from where it sprang and then fell to fading remained a mystery. In cycling its light lent its powers to coloring my tablecloth a lighter shade, relieving pigment from its duty to darken, except for those spots where I placed my bottles and cups, shielding only parts of the piece from fading, threads left closer to their original hues hewed to others abandoned as wraiths to their fates, a darker ring the mark of those who stayed behind.
September 6, 2023
Where the trees blackened, I saw,

Quickly, three deer lean into goldenness.

It seems, although wildfires rage

Out of control, this world remembers

Some portion of its first purposes:

Superfluous beauty