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Having rehearsed it for two weeks - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Riding the backs of the Trojan Women - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

In Euripides' great wake they are swept up - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Seaweed on the wet flanks of a whale - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

In a foam of hysterical voices shrieking - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Each town has its Cassandra - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Wed to some mystery or other - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

The terror reaches its red claws into back ward and living room - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Each town has its Andromache - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Led out weeping among the ambulances - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

In all the makeup she can muster - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

The gorgeous mask of whatever quick-witted lie will keep her alive - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

That dolorous mountain of wooden ships and water - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

In whose memory the women bring us this huge gift horse - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Small ragdoll figures toppling over and over - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

From every skyscraper and battlement hurtling - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Our numbed faces are as stunned as Andromache's - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Up the surging ladder of grief piled on grief - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Heightens the gloss of each bitter scene - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Each word rings out over our terrified heads - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

A child falls through midnight - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

The warriors depart without a glance backward - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

These captains of the world's death - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

In a rain of willess atoms - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Life picks up and goes on but not art - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

The one gift that will not disappear but waits - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Inside whose artifice is the lesson, buried alive - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

The grim machinations of the beautiful - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Lead us to these eternally real lamentations - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"


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