The Iowa Review

Happy Valley above Vinh Thanh

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What you think is a face is a lake is a lake is a lake a door an empty ladder between memory and a big blond kid from Kansas shook like a leaf till he flopped like a fish till he died on the jungle floor— each gesture stiff in phrases like they repeated anything something about survival seems to fit around the pain and comes one music. You can damn near sing along.

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