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Edited by Jon Thompson
& in Open, Marvel
Felicia Zamora
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
www.parlorpress.com
Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621
© 2018 by Parlor Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Zamora, Felicia M., author.
Title: & in open, marvel / Felicia Zamora.
Other titles: And in open, marvel
Description: Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018000833 (print) | LCCN 2018004638 (ebook) | ISBN 9781602359857 (pdf) | ISBN 9781602359864 (epub) | ISBN 9781602359840 (softcover : acid-free paper)
Classification: LCC PS3626.A6278 (ebook) | LCC PS3626.A6278 A6 2018b (print) | DDC 811/.6--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000833
978-1-60235-984-0 (paperback)
978-1-60235-985-7 (pdf)
978-1-60235-986-4 (epub)
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Cover design by David Blakesley.
Cover image: “Flurry of Wings: Clustered” by Jessica Owings Crouch. Used by permission
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Still These Lovely Works Beyond Us
{Honest} Random {Caused by Desire to De-Categorize} Self
Understanding Words Fail & Weave in Simultaneity
Across the Blown, Inward Breeze
{otherwise known as moment of anointment}
Acknowledgments
For Goose,
Be sturdy & wide-eyed—open to the wonders of this world; let not
a single moment close you.
Love, Aunt Felicia
There are things to be said. No doubt.
And in one way or another
they will be said. But to whom tell
the silences? With whom share them
now? For a moment the sky is
empty