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WIND TELEPHONE
by marjorie stein
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what is the word for a hand waving
on the wrong side of the horizon —
curling against ocean
they were merely trying to avoid
the less predictable waves —
the plural of water
returned as moon-pull —
what is the word for the color of a wave
when it eclipses a star-stenciled night —
fingering rotary digits
of the wind telephone
she says this grief is fractal
he answers every bridge has an opposite destination
Marjorie’s work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, VOLT, zaum, Phoebe, Poetry Motel, Pavement Saw Press, and other publications. Her first book, “An Atlas of Lost Causes,” was published by Kelsey Street Press.
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