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Carolyn Guinzio
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All The Rage

The locals waved at the river-
boat from the banks of the river,
and the river waved back. 

We locked our things in the safe. 
In the lock, we waited. We wanted 
to feel their level. Pfennigs and francs

on the floor of the river 
said the word round. The rusted 
husk of a truck waits 

until the dim evening hours 
to show itself—when it’s too late
to complain that the beauty

promised by the guide has abandoned 
the river, and the river has worn
the color of luck off the coins.




Carolyn Guinzio's most recent collection is SPINE (Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in Agni, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The New Yorker, and many other journals. She is the text editor of YEW: A Journal of Innovative Writing & Images By Women (yewjournal.com). Find her online at 
carolynguinzio.tumblr.com




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