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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Prairie Schooner

Self-portrait before Penalty Kick ||| Prairie Schooner

November 13, 2019

James Ciano

        You are on the line the ref’s whistle opens a cloud opens your stomach its shrill is something you swallow a silence opens like a door and on the other side are one thousand closed mouths … Continued

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