Last summer, during a visit to Vancouver, my nine-year-old son climbed the pediment of a cast-iron traffic-light standard and put his palm on the glowing hand that warns pedestrians to stay put. My mother pointed out afterwards that my photograph of the event contained its own French caption, in the word visible over his shoulder: main.
During the hiatus, a man in a black suit appeared in the Geist Gallery in Toronto and identified himself as a builder of ornithopters, or perhaps he said he was a promoter of ornithopters (this was during the hiatus, when nothing was clear; in any event his field was ornithoptery). I couldn’t remember what an ornithopter was but I could see one in my mind: the question was, what did an ornithopter do? The ornithopter man was accompanied by a well-dressed woman who never stopped smiling.
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Notes & Dispatches from S.I. HASSAN, SADIE McCARNEY, MADELEINE PELLETIER and ROSE DIVECHA; New fiction by RITA SIMONETTA; Feature essays from RAYYA LIEBICH and ANIK SEE; Comic by RJ McDANIEL; Poetry by CONOR KERR; Winners of the 19th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest, and much more!
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