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Eleni Sikélianòs
Eleni Sikélianòs
Eleni Sikelianos was raised in California. She received an M.F.A. in Writing...
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In the Airport

 
by Eleni Sikélianòs

A man called Dad walks by
then another one does. Dad, you say
and he turns, forever turning, forever
being called. Dad, he turns, and looks
at you, bewildered, his face a moving 
wreck of skin, a gravity-bound question 
mark, a fruit ripped in two, an animal 
that can't escape the field.









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