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Merton, Laughing

A poem 

By Theodore Deppe
The illustration shows an open suitcase with the face of a man laughing on the bottom half, and a woman dancing in an empty room on the top half.
Illustration by Nate Sweitzer
November 2023
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Dream fragment in which Thomas Merton stops his Jeep
at the border, where a customs official who looks like my sister
opens his suitcase and, finding a spare monastic robe,

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Illustration by Nate Sweitzer