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      Edited by Jon Thompson

      & in Open, Marvel

      Felicia Zamora

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

      www.parlorpress.com

      Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621

      © 2018 by Parlor Press

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Zamora, Felicia M., author.

      Title: & in open, marvel / Felicia Zamora.

      Other titles: And in open, marvel

      Description: Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2018]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018000833 (print) | LCCN 2018004638 (ebook) | ISBN 9781602359857 (pdf) | ISBN 9781602359864 (epub) | ISBN 9781602359840 (softcover : acid-free paper)

      Classification: LCC PS3626.A6278 (ebook) | LCC PS3626.A6278 A6 2018b (print) | DDC 811/.6--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000833

      978-1-60235-984-0 (paperback)

      978-1-60235-985-7 (pdf)

      978-1-60235-986-4 (epub)

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      Cover design by David Blakesley.

      Cover image: “Flurry of Wings: Clustered” by Jessica Owings Crouch. Used by permission

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      Contents

       empty haunt; inlet

       A Long Road Never Takes Us

       At Last Summer Let Go

       Sacrament

       Caught in Diastole

       Before Winter

       Alone at the Lake

       A Constant Spin Resides

       Purpose of Dance

       I Hear the Blue Jay Sing

       dance {dance} dance

       Intersections

       Still These Lovely Works Beyond Us

       Brain Waves

       Picture of the Hive

       In Perihelion

       Broken Things

       Centripetal

       {Honest} Random {Caused by Desire to De-Categorize} Self

       Understanding Words Fail & Weave in Simultaneity

       imbibe {et alia} here

       orts: a poem

       Imbibe {Et Alia} Here

       flutter & flash

       In Hush

       A Lesson

       Witness Here: A Limited Thing

       Vernal

       We Return Sparkling

       Across the Blown, Inward Breeze

       Toward the End of Day

       Hummingbirds

       Soon

       {otherwise known as moment of anointment}

       Blue Jays in the Yard

      Acknowledgments

       Free Verse Editions

       About the Author

      For Goose,

      Be sturdy & wide-eyed—open to the wonders of this world; let not

      a single moment close you.

      Love, Aunt Felicia

      There are things to be said. No doubt.

      And in one way or another

      they will be said. But to whom tell

      the silences? With whom share them

      now? For a moment the sky is

      empty