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Pommes et Cannelle

by Chris Dungey                                                   These ingredients were printed                                                    on a crème-colored envelope wedged                                                    between toilet tank and wall—                                                   an unopened sachet or potpourri.                                                   We couldn’t tell, but there were red                                                   line sketches—of leaves, sprigs,                                                   poinsettia. When for?                                                   The Holidays were past—but “Scents                                                   of the Season” it read, in English.                                                   Still, through February the pouch                                                  waited to be poured                                                   into an exhausted vase                                                   of…

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Assyria

by Anonymous We wandered these plains before the civil war, before the prophets told of Nineveh’s fate, from God’s merciful hammer and our mules and camels drank this water long before the royal hanging gardens withered and died from neglect. Before the stateless caliphate thugs held our treasures for ransom…

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