SQN - Sine Qua Non - Issue Two - Journal - Page 11
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her actions:
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The poem imagines grace not as forgetting the past, but as holding and surviving it
without surrendering to bitterness.
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The curse. And what do you remember?
Everything. Everything a body should forget.
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There is the poem.
Kim Horner
Assistant Managing Editor, Poetry
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Creative Prose Introduction
Old friends.
Stories can do many things: unsettle, illuminate, transform. Within these pages you
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blinders and allow ourselves to encounter the author again, we may discover something
increasingly rare in contemporary literary culture: presence.
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a journey of humanity. The story juxtaposes modern technology and globalization with
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