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by Eugen Bacon


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  Atlanta

  Contents

  in lieu of a preface

  Part I

  Evridiki

  She steals at dawn

  Let it play out

  Overrated

  Outward declarations of inner decisions

  Neither a kitchen nor a sky

  The traveler

  From the lookout

  A wail of sirens

  Safest method

  Tugging at the waves

  Saving the Great Barrier Reef

  The wing of silence

  None of this is a dream

  What the window saw

  The bird woman

  A fair treatment

  Green water, emerald sky

  Skipping across reeds and bricks

  She often called on her

  Blood and sweat

  Choices

  Beware

  It’s a beatitude

  It is sizzling

  On reflection he did not know

  Random calls

  The man in my bed

  The man on the street

  Surprising things he owns

  Sorry for the false start, I suppose it’s autumn

  Locating

  Life in monochrome

  Punctum

  Hit and miss

  Scorched

  Vestigial night

  The bury ball

  Unprecedented

  Nothing new

  The nature of reflection

  Part II

  History lesson

  Confession of a bookworm

  Today’s word is fire

  Footnote

  Letter to a bride to be

  Lines

  Ariadne dreams of a new relativity

  Allegretto ma non troppo

  Call me scar

  Dark energy

  The metaphysicist at the waterfront police station

  Tears

  Fear of sand

  Waterlogged

  Blood and tears (if not too contentious)

  A desperate vitality

  Endgame without ending

  acknowledgments

  about the authors

  Landmarks

  Cover

 

 

 


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