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Poetry (Continued)

     Echo Journal is pleased to introduce another new contributing poet .  Rex (rl) Swihart is currently a teacher as well as poet from southern California.  His passions include reading, writing, and travel, and he says that his influences are "mostly dead guys: Samuel Beckett, Max Frisch, Thomas Mann, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Rilke, Celan, Zbigniew Herbert, et al."  Mr. Swihart can be reached via email at  rls.aaz-s@worldnet.att.net

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Jedwabne


1

Complicity-

an oblique
silky-as-sleep
finger-pointing
ball-of-yarn
neighbor word-

a strange word
that plagues and placates
me
throughout my history


2

History-

breadcrumbs-

another hissing snake-

another inscrutable
word


3

The occupation
was German

Bronislaw Sleszynski's
barn was tinder

I did
and I didn't
strike the match

                              r l swihart

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