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Even in death, she still loved archery.

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Duet

Duy Doan

              Night time is the right time . . .                      —Ray Charles and Margie Hendricks

She had me in the car. I came forward like a song. We did it before temple, after temple, between prayers. The windows echoed her mantras, our cries warmed the air. Two peaks merged, then sank below the clouds.

We did it before temple, after temple, between prayers. Her stomach began to show and people asked us not to come. Two peaks merged, then sank below the clouds. Night and day, everything was changing.

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Her stomach began to show and people asked her not to come. My mother was all alone when I was born. Night and day. Everything was changing. The radio started playing rhythm and blues.

My mother was all alone when I was born— The windows echoed her mantras, our cries warmed the air, The radio started playing rhythm and blues. She had me in a car. I came forward like a song.

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Author's note:

I’ve seen how clan justice, organic and calculating, can be dealt out against sexual immorality, to devastating effect. In this poem, the son and his lover are unable to escape a perverse karmic retribution; they share his mother’s fate. Ray Charles and Margie Hendricks, whose song celebrates love and sexuality, provide the soundtrack for the second half of the poem, as does the crying infant. Maybe there is some solace to be taken in worldly music. If we enter the world crying, we enter it singing.

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Overnight

John Yau

           In Memory of Paul Violi (1944-2011)

I did not realize that you were fading from sight I don’t believe I could have helped with the transition

You most likely would have made a joke of it Did you hear about the two donkeys stuck in an airshaft

I don’t believe I could have helped with the transition The doorway leading to the valleys of dust is always open

Did you hear about the two donkeys stuck in an airshaft You might call this the first of many red herrings

The doorway leading to the valleys of dust is always open The window overlooking the sea is part of the dream

You might call this the first of many red herrings The shield you were given as a child did not protect you

The window overlooking the sea is part of the dream One by one the words leave you, even this one

The shield you were given as a child did not protect you The sword is made of air before you knew it

One by one the words leave you, even this one I did not realize that you were fading from sight

The sword is made of air before you knew it You most likely would have made a joke of it

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Author's note:

‘Overnight’ is an elegy for the poet Paul Violi (1944–2011), whose work I first read in the late 1970s. I took the title of the poem from his book Overnight (Hanging Loose Press), which was first published in 2007. In the obituary that appeared in The New York Times, William Grimes wrote that Violi was ‘a poet with an easy, conversational style and satiric bent who reworked arcane historical verse forms and invented his own in poems that mimicked glossaries, errata slips, travel brochures and cover letters.’ I chose the pantoum—a form where every line appears twice in a predetermined order—as a way of honoring Violi and his poetry.

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BERLIN | U2 concert ends early after Bono loses voice in Berlin

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BERLIN | U2 concert ends early after Bono loses voice in Berlin

BERLIN — The Irish rock bank U2 has cancelled a concert in Berlin after singer Bono lost his voice during the performance.

The band said on its website late Saturday that, “Bono was in great form and great voice prior to the show … but after a few songs he suffered a complete loss of voice.”

U2 said “we don’t know what has happened and we are taking medical advice.”

The German news agency dpa reported Sunday that Bono still managed to perform the song “Beautiful Day” with the help of the audience at Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena and then disappeared backstage.

Concert-goers were first told that there would be a short break, but eventually were informed that the concert was over and they should keep their tickets for a replacement concert.

By Associated Press