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Writings \/ Poetry: Cassidy McFadzean<\/a><\/h3>
Arrival of a\u00a0Train\u00a0at La Ciotat \r\nPlato must have needed the flame of a candle,\r\nand a concave mirror to project his images \r\nof trees and animals upon the cave wall.\r\nThe projectionist moves his slides quickly, in\r\n\r\nand out of the lantern, palms p...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Diana Manole<\/a><\/h3>
 \r\nAir \r\n \r\n\r\n1. First Breath \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAll I can do is breathe\r\nand crystal pebbles gently drop into me one after another\r\nwith the sound of the childhood bell\r\nannouncing that the always overweight and slightly asthmatic Santa Claus\r\nfinally...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Yemi Soneye<\/a><\/h3>
To See Her Full Like Filled Seats \r\n\r\nIn a restaurant\r\nyou both can\u2019t afford,\r\nthis is the third dinner.\r\n\r\nThe birds in your shirt\r\nwant to leave.\r\nIt\u2019s just the wind, you lie\r\nas you heard he does\r\nhis hair worn\r\nlike hands of a moss.\r\n\r\nFrom smirk\r\nlike poo...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona<\/a><\/h3>
Isle \r\n\r\n           No far-fetched fragrance was your familiar\r\nAmid Rodos\u2019 dark shambles of mountains\r\nBy that Trojan ocean, where first we met,\r\nDishing wine in every vintage tavern.\r\nI savoured t...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Wole Soyinka<\/a><\/h3>
*Elegy for a Nation \r\n(For Chinua Achebe at 70 )\r\n\r\nI \r\n\r\nAh, Chinua, are you grapevine wired?\r\nIt sings: our nation is not dead, not clinically\r\nYet. Now this may come as a surprise to you,\r\nIt was to me. I thought the form I spied\r\nBeneath the frosted...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Wale Adebanwi<\/a><\/h3>
Grahamstown Opera \r\n\r\n(For Jamie) \r\n\r\nI \r\n\r\nHow could I say all I wanted to say,\r\nwhen you snatched the questions in my throat,\r\nbleeding my thoughts?\r\n\r\nOn the road from Grahamstown,\r\nyour serenity was a ferocity at the steering.\r\nYes, the steering,...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1260,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/1477"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}