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Women’s Clothes in the Twenty-First Century

14 January, 2009 by anca v · 3 comments

Anca Vlasopolos

Photo: Rudolfo Nunez
I’ll confess: I shop for my husband. I buy him shoes, underwear, shirts, ties, slacks, jackets, belts, even overcoats. It’s easy. Shirts: 16×32; pants 36×32; jackets 42 regular; shoes 11 and a half B. I cannot shop for my daughter, who’s a willowy 5’9”, 115 pounds, with broad shoulders, a visible but [...]

Each Life

11 January, 2009 by anca v · 1 comment

Anca Vlasopolos

Photo: chefranden
on October 9, 5769,
Atonement Day,
the thrush stood in the middle of Lakeland
the street that takes me
where I face St. Clair
to cast once more
my bread upon the waters

In Dream

30 December, 2008 by anca v · 3 comments

Anca Vlasopolos

Photo: audreyjm529
in dream
clouds shouldered their way
past me
looking
like the familiar
purplish fade
of a longtime bruise