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A Chorus of Horizontals (excerpt)
Los Pjaros Anidan Wherever you go those geese follow, slick Harpies, as if you'retheir star, their hunger. They all point to you. You believe this
and it keeps you alive through winter after winter when,
missing them,
you go down to the steely Chicago at the end of your ice-encrusted impossible street and throw bread upon the water.
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From "A Chrous of Horizontals" by Maureen Seaton, from FURIOUS COOKING. Copyright © 1996 by Maureen Seaton. Reprinted with the permission of University of Iowa Press.
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