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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Two Hawks Quarterly

Issue 2 – Number 1 – Summer 2008

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A Letter Not Sent Kristine Ong Muslim
Are They Real? Virginia Silverman
Avoiding Her Art Eugenie Theall
BLOCK Darby Bailey
Bread & Tablecloths Sergio Ortiz
Childless Eugenie Theall
Defeating the Forces of Café Amore Laurie Barton
FAMILY OWNED R. Neal Bonser
Forever 18 Casey Cohen
Mulling Spices Jennifer Bradpiece
ORBIT Melissa Mason
Reversal of Aging Laurie Barton
RITUALS Lynn Bey
Soul’s Call Jonathan Emrys
TAGORE’S KISS Shome Dasgupta
The Art of Giving Devin Galaudet
Without Words Philip C. Barragan, II
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Our mother calls me to come and look at her. That is how we begin.

“Say something,” she says. She tries to sound petulant, but her image in the full-length mirror makes her smile.

“A sheath,” I offer, cross-legged on the floor. I hold a pillow on my lap despite the heat.

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                                                     for Lawrence King, 1992-2007

Teens bully deans, bash

desks like Queens christen ships, Read More »


And it seemed that, just a little more—and the solution would be found, and then a new, beautiful life would begin; and it was clear to both of them that the end was still far off, and that the most complicated and difficult part was just beginning.

Anton Chekhov Read More »

A Poem of Premonition: Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The crows collect

in front of my window.

They call for souls

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My clarinet squeaked
in a chorus of sick geese.
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We were seventeen when I paid for my best friend’s

abortion, helped answer the doctor’s questions, Read More »

We celebrate New Year’s Eve in San Salvador, city of
hammocks, Read More »