<font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant:small-caps">LITTLE KNIVES</span><span></span></span></font>




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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>Find the
circumference in inches     <span> </span>of the hole in
the upper middle of feeling </span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>full       <span> </span>a level one       <span> </span>head
injury and not the sunlight </span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>as we
had thought       <span> </span>or stay sleeping in the sky      <span> </span>in the family</span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>position<span>           </span>still and equal               <span></span>to the lack        <span></span>how to get honesty<span> </span></span></span></font></p>





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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>to make
room             <span> </span><span> </span>for
tact<span>              </span><span> </span>what
we least demand of ourselves<span> </span><span> </span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>the day
going quickly            <span> </span>at the speed of sympathy<span>        </span>pediatric </span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>needles
to inject the hands <span> </span><span> </span><span>               </span>blue
evening breaking open</span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>jailer,    <span> </span>I can't be the only one                        <span> </span><span> </span>in the room who has been</span></span></font></p>
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<br clear="all"><img alt="Inline image 1" src="cid:ii_13cc50f4a6665d7a" height="420" width="288"><br><br><br><b>Marni Ludwig</b> is the author of <a title="" href="http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/ludwig-pinwheel.html" target="_blank">
<i>Pinwheel</i></a>, selected by Jean Valentine for the 2013 New Issues Poetry Prize and
<a title="" href="http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/chapbook_fellowship/2011/little_box_of_cotton/" target="_blank">
<i>Little Box of Cotton and Lightning</i></a>, chosen by Susan Howe for a 2012 Poetry Society of America Chapbook fellowship.  She lives in Athens, GA, and in Brooklyn, NY.<br>
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<b>Kristine Morfogen</b> is a native New Yorker. Although she got her MFA at 
Pratt Institute, she is a newcomer to photography. She currently lives 
in Brooklyn with her family. Contact her at
<a href="mailto:morfogenk@yahoo.com" target="_blank">morfogenk@yahoo.com</a>. <br><br>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org" target="_blank">www.realpoetik.org</a>