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OLIVIA CLARE

"The sound is..."

Laying down

his head, he heard

himself half-stepping

into his ear.

                      A high A


arrived, but somewhere

else: the alluvial bed

of a Rhine so deep there

one could almost not hear.



38   The Paris-American

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Olivia Clare's poems appear in Poetry,
The London Magazine, Southern Review,
and other journals. Her short stories are forthcoming in Ecotone and The Hopkins Review. She was the 2008–2009 Olive B. O'Connor Fellow at Colgate University. In 2011, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Fellowship. She's also received fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Djerassi Foundation. She co-edits The Winter Anthology.

   
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