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Nicholas Reading

Nicholas Reading: The Jazz Kitchen

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

This kid finishes his first night of washing dishes and steak knives when he hangs the apron and walks into a room with short ceilings and long, very long legs. He comes up to their waists. His image of the blues pales in this gray. Cigarettes are tongues flicked and ashed over. Louise Misha, he […]

Filed Under: Contributors 77, Issue 77, Poetry, Poetry 77 Tagged With: Contributors 77, Nicholas Reading, Poetry, Poetry 77

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