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Issue # 3 January 2011
"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Shannon Connor Winward


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Slip

Opened again
by my vulnerability,
my composite self slipping out
onto the linoleum
with a pugnacious smack, I am
surprised
how inconsequential
my momentary deaths
are
in the wake of
other people's conversation
and the shadow of a pretty girl.