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Operative Words

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Snuffed Torch

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Maureen Hynes

Maureen Hynes has published six books of poetry, most recently Take the Compass.

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Mailbox

March 2015
  All night my dreams snowed letters. Singly and in sheaves, envelopes fell into my hands, big manilas and tissue-thin airmails, some with Chinese script and Chinese stamps. Pages folded and signed. On red stationery inside a red envelope, a shout of congratulations.   And me carrying armfuls to the mailbox. Waking, I wondered at this paper…