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...Liz Marlow Copyright © 2020 Liz Marlow 2020 Liz Marlow The Halloween Spider for Clara While we paste pompoms onto construction paper with googly eyes swirling at a glittery green, gold, and blue web, I am reminded of our fragility: how many times have I felt the crunch of brown or black...

.... She has drawn especially on the Stoics to reinvigorate moral and political philosophy, and she investigates the import of literature and the emotions in books ranging from The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Cambridge UP, 1986) to Upheavals...

...Jacqueline Doyle Copyright © 2019 Jacqueline Doyle 2019 Jacqueline Doyle Butterfly My little butterfly. I put my hands on my stomach tonight and remem- ber you, little butterfly trapped in the bone house of my pelvis, flitting from one wall to another. So delicate, so fragile. So long ago...

... in the sunlight pouring milk all over my face. I’ve forgotten to tether myself to something. I’m aware of how fragile my body is. minnesota review 81 (2013) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2332030  © 2013 Jason Bredle 25 ...

... and Mapplethorpe? if your knowledge is fragile it cannot be applied under other conditions it's different for people with dumb luck evaluation complicated and time-consuming. ...

... into the side of your lower back. Nothing is as fragile as this. The road we walk is made of used dental floss. Look, my gums are bleeding! And I swear you rinse your dick in the sink, but somethings I don t want confirmed. After onetwothreefour beers you cradle my head in one hand and call my occipital condyle...

...Jaydn DeWald © 2013 Jaydn DeWald 2013 Jaydn DeWald Vigil after Radmila Lazić Spring belated, and I am much too old To see, in the black pool, our daughter Holding her naked doll. Fragile leaves In her unspooling hair. Algae-globbed —​ Her lidless eyes...

.... Nothing is more fragile than the head of a squirrel too slow to move when the car approaches & afterward too slow to ever move again. There’s a lesson in everything. Last night, I dreamed we walked by the river & it was still frozen, ice-jammed. What could move...

... the fragile fingers of men, donned with neoprene and gauges, reaching down to bustling reefs, those of the doctoral student or the tender digits of honeymooners banded with gold. Brightest of invertebrates, what would you know of letting go? I would assume...

... In other rooms. I'm not really in control of my life But I'm rarely late As if to be on time Cheats the dark angels. Too many of my friends have fallen In this fragile life. I wonder, Would a watch help? I know it's a fetish object But it's also a marker Of social relationships...

... something darker, the force that spurs ischemic rhythms in feline hearts, kills squirrels caught under car tires, but I won t worry about that; after all, all the time fall is ending, and fragile stuff is getting squished beneath my fingers, and I suppose it isn t quite a tragedy if it s part of a heartbeat...

...: the silence, when I arrived, was deafen- ing. I gazed up at the starlight; I did not dare go inside. Too afraid to face such solitude, too fragile to be let down, I tromped round to the side of the house —​yellow porch-swing cushion shoved under my arm —​then dropped down through the black hole...

... to find another home. I will not move, though my impermanence is not in doubt. I read the fragile branches give their water to the leaves, allow themselves to hollow out, be snapped by coastal winds. Such sacrifice —​ would altruism move him? I want the man atop the hill...

... are filled with shadows. I have no memory of what came before he lifted me out of the box. When he walks away with the box marked fragile in huge red letters, I see the calendar on the opposite wall. November, 1979. April 1980 I ve been hanging around for a while now. The man who put me together is named...

..., ah who needs to swim anyway, people pee in pools. I might let you take swimming lessons, mother says, when your fragile respiratory system, your tonsillitis, and your, she points to sister, strep throat every three months disappears. Do you think I like taking you to the doctor all the time...

... torn out from “mankind” [l’homme] itself the fragile veins, so recent after all and whose worth was based on fragility. In fact, the community of mankind has left itself to its own devices, untying itself from the religious bonds that had moreover given it its...

... don t know how to tell you that she was attractive that over time her bare skin had a sexual allure but she was. This skin that looked powdered, though it wasn t, carried an extraordinary fragility. A demented, humorless god had taken away minnesota review 97 (2021) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9335800 © 2021...

...) deconstructive notion of hostipital- ity helps us dissect this fragile and powerless placement of Diome s haunted migrant women. Their double placement in past and present, in Africa and Europe, is expressed also in their threshold positions as migrants in France. They are poised in the doorways of their would...

.... Ironists are plagued by unresolvable hesitancy concerning the stability of systems of belief and understanding what Rorty calls final vocabularies because of their intense awareness of the historical contingency and fragility of these vocabularies. Ironists are therefore open to change and self-revision...

... biologically and ethically separated from other beings—appear at best fragile. Rather, “we are in a knot of species coshaping one another in layers of reciprocating complexity” (42): human identity does not exist in isolation from other beings but in a “subject- and object-shaping dance of encounters...