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MUSE IS THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE LIT WORDS+IMAGES ISSUE08.09 Images of the Fire in memory of A., 5 years old All that remained were the empty, ash black eyes without their glimmer gleam, the windows burst open— shattered like fireworks into the late dusk of April evening, a house that had become newsprint of Munch’s scream. A BENEFIT F He, the man, had paced in panic, then stood at one point, CELEBRATING his hands: bare, dark tree branches reaching into 35 YEARS OF the black plume of smoke that was his shock of hair. COVER THE LIT JEANNETTE PALSA This was after the neighbors had slowed his attempts We Become Enlightened SATURDAY, O and covered his cries with the uselessness of their hands. NOVEMBER, 7 6:30PM In other blind moments, he gathered the shaking little girls CONVIVIUM 33 like shadowed willows that spilled around his legs, clinging, GALLERY their faces: frightened storms off-course, hovering over R the sloping hills of their shoulders that pressed in around their confusion, the unnamed grief that precipitated. Finally, as rivers rushed from gaping mouths, wide eyes: CLOSURE the tiny brown silk of breathless boy lifted from the floor, Visions of Reality, Words of Promise passed through the terrible space between outside and in. For 35 years, The LIT, founded in 1974 as Leonard Trawick, and the late Cyril A. Dostal. Featuring hors d’oeuvres and cock- The Poets' League of Cleveland, has been Lifetime membership is awarded to Mary tails set to the soundtrack of the Vince TINA PUCKETT Northeast Ohio's only independent, non- Chadbourne, Christopher Franke, Nina Robinson Jazz Poets, the evening will mark profit organization dedicated solely to Freedlander Gibans, Diane Kendig, Joan The LIT’s rich history and the organiza- literature and literary artists.
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