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Lydia Copeland Gwyn

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The Bone Buried In My Body, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Dec 2018

The Bone Buried In My Body, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: I lay my kiss on your mouth and we drift, oar-less and slow, down a river lined with ghost farms and blackened branches. 

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Four New Stories, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Feb 2017

Four New Stories, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: I stand with mosquitoes in my veil in the evening sun and speak words from some other time: of cathedrals and dances at the spring house, green campus quads..

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My Fingers Loosen, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Dec 2016

My Fingers Loosen, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: I strip maple saplings with a hatchet, making the weft for a wattle fence...

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My Body Feels Full Of Stars, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Dec 2016

My Body Feels Full Of Stars, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: Mom is in the bathroom with a miscarriage...

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The Spine Falls Away, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Dec 2016

The Spine Falls Away, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: You touch the bones, set as custard skin in the gray filth of the barn dust....

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Four Stories, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Sep 2016

Four Stories, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: Juniper bushes outside a green house...

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Crown Royal, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Dec 2015

Crown Royal, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: We’d drive together down the coast road, to the brown paneled bars with pool tables and glossy cue sticks....

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Tour Guide Of My Brain, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Dec 2015

Tour Guide Of My Brain, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: I dream of hands in a tree....

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In My Window, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Dec 2015

In My Window, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt:

A cloud in a cup.
My diary with its flimsy metal lock.
Milky sheets of winter plastic to keep in the heat....

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Harvestmen, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Dec 2013

Harvestmen, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: I resolved to fade into a lost afternoon....

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Once In The Night, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Sep 2009

Once In The Night, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: I drove through many expanses of pine shadows and white lines, through cities tall and shining, where everyone was in for the evening and the road construction gleamed in the light...

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The Sway Of Trains, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Nov 2008

The Sway Of Trains, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: In bed at night, hearing the last conversations on the street, I’m still moving with the train cars...

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Christmas Tree, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Nov 2008

Christmas Tree, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: We ask about a tree for Christmas...

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Everything Was Blowing In The Wind, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Oct 2008

Everything Was Blowing In The Wind, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt:I ran up the side-walked hill when you asked...

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Library, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Apr 2008

Library, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: Let's start from the beginning. Your mother's face in the phone...

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Haircut, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Dec 2006

Haircut, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: She is cutting his hair. The wind is in her curls....

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Thaw, Lydia Copeland Gwyn Mar 2004

Thaw, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Excerpt: It’s midday and sheets of ice slide off the roof of the house...

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