'Imagine a Woman Behind Razor Wire, Glimpsed' by James Owens, with art by Cheryl Dodds

Railroad Diary, Istanbul 2012 -- by Cheryl Dodds


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A long time ago, when we lived in the sky….

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But no, we never lived in the sky.We invented that because of pain,because desire tortures even the dirt and stones into division,into definition fracture power solitude wall razor wire.

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(But pleasure is also real. Joy is real. One autumn day, my wifeclimbed a fence and stole from a