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LAURA KASISCHKE

K–


Who lay unmoving
in his hospital bed
still running through a dream.  And

the doctors whispered something
to the parents.  Just

words. But irreversible. Like

the spell cast so long ago on the trees.


  


49   The Paris-American

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Laura Kasischke received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her most recent collection of poems, SPACE, IN CHAINS.  She has also published eight
novels.  She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan.

   
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