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Michael M. Weinstein

Memory Palace

I’m home : sugars grit
against my teeth

the ceiling fan revolves
like a fly circling in slow

compulsion a spot
of human blood

over the baby
blue wallpaper

and in a fake wood frame
on the nightstand

there is a little
girl child in yellow

overalls taking a
plastic clock apart

unsmilingly with
my same eyes




Michael M. Weinstein is a doctoral student in English at Harvard and a graduate of the creative writing program at Northwestern University.  The recipient of a Fulbright grant to Russia, he is also a freelance literary translator.  He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.




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