Apeiron Review | Issue 6

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Angle Roland Leach I only knew an angle of my father. An acute angle. A tiny slice that changed from where you stood. I sometimes caught him in the corner of my eye and thought, that’s him. Getting out of his truck, dirty from work, pine resin on his arm hair, black oil across his face. Or in the Chrysler with the kids singing. Never was. I tried to look in the wrong direction, hoping he had left something of himself. Just a trace, so had I been a sniffer-dog I could have tracked him. But he was light-footed, shadowless. He came home every day but was never there, came home every day with his one trick of disappearing into light.

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The Other Woman

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Aurora, Wǒ de ài

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Lately They Have Been Telling Me

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Stones

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Fatherhood

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Angle

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Father

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Thinking of Nothing

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Mikey Comes Homes

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Kitengela

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I Prefer My Flag

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Natural Enemy

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My 95

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Throwing Stones

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In a Dream of Slow Moving Traffic

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The Undercarriage

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Winter Begins in Berlin

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Road Trip

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Airbag

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First

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The Best Days

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The Endless

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Cave-diving

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Lac Bernard

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The Thief

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The Passion of) Joan of Arc

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The Revivification of Charles Josiah West, Age 82

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After Hours with Orange

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Southern Girls

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The Malfunction of a Small Airplane as Seen From the Ground

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Birdcage

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Interpreting the Diagnosis

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Utopia

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Naked Guy

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5 a.m. quiet

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