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[email protected] WWW.sixfold.ORG (203) 491-0242 SIXFOLD POETRY SUMMER 2013 coNTENTS Sharron Singleton The Dock-Sitters 9 Praying Mantis 11 Pigs can see wind 12 Waiting in Line After Christmas 13 On Narragansett Bay 14 Sarah Giragosian The Man Born with a Snake Heart 15 The Lioness 16 Missed Connections 17 The Anglerfish Finds her Muse 19 The Seals off the Coast of Manomet 20 Jenna Kilic Ianfu 21 Aisha, the Child-Bride of Muhammad, Speaks 22 A Cannibal in Onsong Prison Speaks 23 Execution at Yodok 24 Fertile Soil 25 Kristina McDonald After you leave for work, I contemplate the shovel 26 The Lost Girls 27 When the Dog Bites 28 A daughter should know the answer 29 My foot is stuck in the mirror again 31 Toni Hanner Le Bugue 32 Le Bugue to Paris 33 The Houses of the Dead 34 Weather 36 Elegy for December 37 Annie Mascorro Offering 38 Once 39 The Container 41 Ghazal 42 On Auras 43 Brittney Corrigan Stellar’s Jay the Week of the Boston Marathon Bombings 44 Falling Teeth 46 Not Burning Down the House 48 S.