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Jan LaPerle

Jan LaPerle received her M.F.A from Southern Illinois University. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Subtropics, PANK, Boxcar Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry Review, Dislocate, and elsewhere. She currently lives in East Tennessee with the poet Clay Matthews.

Letter After the Circus

18 May 2009
Vol. 9, No. 1
poetry

And I think right now we are all

torturing each other. Daring Young Men on the Flying Trapeze.

Gentle Ponies. High Wire Daredevil. With such magnificence

in the world, it seems I would begin to believe something else.

Wind. Rain. All descriptions are masks. Sirens, right now,

screech through the air of this house. The gentle ponies were not

gentle at all.