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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (95): 16.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Claire Christoff Claire Christoff Fruit in August It s a sunny day: stupid, pretty. I put a peach and a nectarine in my bag, pretending not to see a deep gash in the former that will leak its rosy syrup like the worst flirt, draw every fat baby bumblebee. You and I should have met on the side...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 16.
Published: 01 May 2013
... emerges in one postcard only over time, like an eye softens to darkness. This is the barbeque we had last night my picture is to the left with a cross over it Your son Joe Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Though the day smoldered, he must have...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (103): 28.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the translucent clump of fruit within. He'd talked of retirement, of moving to Florida to be around his grandkids. This is how we fear my father will go; the heart, that tangerine in the chest, that fruit turning itself back to blossom. The heart, terrible engine of metaphor. Stretching to hold the whole...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 51–52.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., yes. The first harvest we couldn t stop touching the fruit It was rubbing our hands across the mint, the basil, the rosemary breathing in Our fingertips it was the peaches, that soft down, that honeyed scent It was the beautiful pressure of a cherry tomato burst in your mouth Then the children came...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 23–27.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to the right he’d be visible in the dusk, which has deepened now, the whole yard a hazy gray. He could wave, say he’ll be up in a minute, read the boy a bedtime story. But he stays as still as he can beneath the glossy leaves, the unripe but heavy fruit that hangs miraculously from...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 255–262.
Published: 01 November 2009
... are just not that simple.  Avoiding mass-produced meat does not mean your food is not, in a sense, stained with blood. For one thing, as Eric Schlosser pointed out long ago in his first food exposé inAtlantic Monthly (“In The Strawberry Fields,” 1995), fruit and vegetable production...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (101): 36–40.
Published: 01 November 2023
... by then, already a few brown and shriveled fruit, devoid of moisture, pocked the tree. Some were scattered on the ground, rotting. And after the winter had minnesota review 101 (2023) DOI 10.1215/00265667-10770170 © 2023 Alysia Gonzales 36 Gonzales 37 already been so dry, this tree would never make it. It had been...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (68): 137–146.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... (and for a more advanced textbook on phonology, see Kenstowicz). Sowards 143 The bloom, whose petals nipt before they blew Died on the promise of the fruit, is waste (51-3) At first glance, one might simply regard these lines...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (82): 11–18.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... It looked ornamented, and in time he realized it was an apple tree. He was among a neighbor’s orchard. Peaches would be nearby, pear trees. He stayed there in the water and sucked breath as the sunbeams cut down upon the tree and its fruit, the prismatic rays limning in purple and orange lines...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (98): 60.
Published: 01 May 2022
... eyes. My mouthful of sweetness was burying the sting. I spin with all the times I have learned and forgotten the same thing: even the freshest fruit seethes inside with smothered life. Look closer; imagine the dead wings unfolding. The day I saw the wasp I saw my future. minnesota review 98 (2022) DOI...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (68): 20.
Published: 01 May 2007
... corn, a con artist content to hustle the aisles of the neighbourhood grocery store. with maliced bliss you let cuts of meat molder, make the milk curdle, gorge yourself on rotten fruit, on gouging money from the honest veins of customers...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 11.
Published: 01 May 2020
... squashes plowed under in the eld. it knows what you hid under the bed that winter, reads your journals in the dark. Guards all the best fruit and tempts you plum s bitter skins, grapes you split with your thumb to slurp from seed. you eat them like gifts, turn everything you love sour. still, it wants...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (86): 2.
Published: 01 May 2016
... windowsill and I clambered downward:  winter argued with night  a pillow crept over the mouth of dawn  as a fruit bat:  I thrived upside down  my well pulled up buckets of dry ink:  my well pulled up buckets of oil minnesota review 86 (2016) DOI 10.1215/00265667-3457459  © 2016 Cody Ernst 2 ...
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the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (97): 41.
Published: 01 November 2021
... with handfuls of cherry tomatoes, a basket of raspberries. I tell her this fruit doesn t last forever. She smiles and falls asleep in the field. Under a harvest moon, my body becomes a stoplight, a fire extinguisher, a cave of rubies where someone writes, name your trauma in lipstick across the walls. When my...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (83): 58.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Portia Elan © 2014 Portia Elan 2014 Portia Elan Barter My kingdom for a shower. My kingdom for an ordinary piece of fruit. My kingdom for a key, but not the key to an apartment or a car or anyone’s heart —or maybe a car a car a carriage that might lift. My...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (89): 43–44.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the edge of the bed like a tree minnesota review 89 (2017) DOI 10.1215/00265667-4175953  © 2017 Willy Palomo 43 44 the minnesota review and remember how once I let my chancla fall like fruit how now I must...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (100): 1.
Published: 01 May 2023
... love stories they know exist without motion. Love is stiff in sense & kinetic in nature. I have nothing but dried fruits and dreams. All roses choose to remain in a garden instead of wrapping themselves in cellophane and beeping at my doorstep. I d like the kind of love that is august & needs warmth...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 40.
Published: 01 November 2022
...? No water means no meal for the family. No river, no water. Headless. The Dutch soldiers offer two gold coins for each Chinese head laid at their feet. They check the eyes: do they curve like ripe mangoes? Does the skin share the same color as fruit flesh? This is how to start the wheel of genocide. Hang...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (95): 17.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... Tosses it into his basket with no affection for the hothouse fruit, watery meat raring to burst from its skin. I want to walk like Mick, to grace the bins of peaches and the just-mopped floor with my debauched parade of one. The alien hand of a dairy worker stocks shelves with cartons of cream, jugs...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 2–3.
Published: 01 November 2016
... brief days   in our skins? Shouldn’t we, tumultuous with loss, lose ourselves in this crazed hubbub that calls itself a world? Isn’t it wrong   not to —​not to bite the succulent fruit of every morning, let the juice trickle like liquid amber down our throats, and take   a crazy, death...