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"Snow Screen" by Louis Staeble
​III

This has been going on for God knows how long. Time is shifting away in a house plant. Time is shifting away in a stack of men. Ask them what they did with time. Ask them why I rethread a needle over and over with a flashlight even though the lights work all my life.  

Annmarie O'Connell

​Annmarie O'Connell is a lifelong resident of the South side of Chicago. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Slipstream, SOFTBLOW, Vinyl Poetry, Curbside Splendor, Escape Into Life, 2River View and many other wonderful journals. Her chapbook Her Last Cup of Light was published by Aldrich Press. She can also be found here: annmarieoconnell@wordpress.com

​Louis Staeble lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. His photographs have appeared in dislocate magazine, Driftwood, Four Ties Literary Review, Iron Gall, On The Rusk, Paper Tape Magazine, Petrichor and Tupelo Quarterly. His web page can be viewed at http://staeblestudioa.weebly.com.
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