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Bethany Bruno

The Museum of Unused Hours & After the Lake Broke Its Promise

54, New Poetry by Bethany Bruno

The Museum of Unused Hours

In the west wing, a glass case
holds the afternoon you never answered the phone.
It smells faintly of dust and oranges.
Visitors linger there,
heads tilted,
as if waiting for something to move.

Down …

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