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Charles Kell

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ENTROPY 

 

Headless statues float in a broken

open Cornell box, past last call.

 

In a small room off the water,

wind burns through empty bottles

 

making neon green headstones

that stare back from the window-sill.

 

Even before your brother died,

you felt like an only child crawling

 

in the dark. Under the bed you shared

for twelve years he built a herbarium,

 

cigarette butts planted on the periphery

with faces drawn over them. This

 

was your family. To lure the stricture

away, clouds inside the closet, shirts

 

shrink over your scratched shoulders.

About the Writer

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      Charles Kell is a PhD student at The University of Rhode Island and editor of The Ocean State
Review
. His poetry and fiction have appeared in The New Orleans Review, The Saint Ann’s
Review, IthacaLit, The Pinch, and elsewhere. He teaches in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Contents

Caroline Plasket

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-- Sometimes My Mother is a Child

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-- Beaded

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Naomi Ruth Lowinsky

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-- YOUR NATURE AND MINE

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Kim Trainor

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From BLUEGRASS: GHAZALS

-- 57.

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-- 27.

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-- 31.

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Charles Kell

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-- Entropy

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Sean Howard

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-- shadowgraph 129: the behavior of the deep

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-- grace notes (jazz triptych)

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Mary Taugher

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-- Padre Pio

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Kelsey Robbins Lauder

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-- Windward

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Sandra Maxson

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-- Vegas

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Artwork

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Prose

Reviews

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