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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Sixfold

Human Water ||| from SIXFOLD

January 29, 2014

Peter Mishler

    Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. —Gaston Bachelard   Boy beside a rain-barrel curling his hand over its edge—   his fingers yellow in the roof-dark water he can’t see.   … Continued

Dairy Barn Angel ||| Sixfold

September 19, 2013

Chris Tarry

  Everyone was so into Angel. He drove this car with purple undercarriage lights and fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror. His girl Francine was with him sometimes, her arm hanging out the car window like she owned his … Continued

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