September 8, 2009
THE HAZEL-ATLAS GLASS FACTORY
For years his father had made fruit jars, ink bottles, jam and pickle jars, Vaseline jars,
blue glass pitchers with the opaque profile of Shirley Temple smiling, forever, bright as tourmaline.
He would come home, sometimes, his boots trailing river mud, his hat bearing the weight of a heaven
so low it felt like the [...]
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August 16, 2009
HOW ATLANTIS DISAPPEARED
Under Socrates’ quiet direction
they took down the street signs and the house numbers.
One by one
the city councilmen dissolved
the ink on all the deeds and licenses,
while the mayor personally
destroyed the negatives
of every picture of the town.
Then, citizens, dutifully checking off a list,
erased the floor plan
of every house on every block.
In a single day
the city [...]
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