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Spring 2015

Agora Spring 2015 Zordani

First Night in the Planned City

BY DAN TESSITORE


Couples walk the cobbled walks, hand
in hand in the apple dusk. Their silver hair

returns the apple dusk. And it pleases
them, the ample stock of old ways

that do remain (aleuromantic messages
in cellophane, for example). Night

will come, just the same, and dawn
bring nothing to fear, nothing to name.