Michael Laskey
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Eventually
by Michael Laskey — yes, she gave up conversation. / She’d lift her chin and finger / her neck, feeling for the stoma — / her trial and almost always error — / to seal it tightly enough to speak // intelligibly in that growling / voice which sounded like
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The outsider who writes from within
Matthew Stewart looks at the work of Michael Laskey