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Deborah Landau’s fourth collection of poetry, Soft Targets, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2019. She directs the Creative Writing Program at New York University.
Don’t blame the wisteria for setting off a feeling like freedom a feeling like joy.
We watched the people walking in the open square—
one of them was a specialist in killing, fear was the way of others.
I’ve seen the most extraordinary thing about people, their faces.
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