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Some Dinners Are Better Left A Tomb
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Some Dinners Are Better Left A Tomb

Explore a darker take on the heirloom of family tradition in this after poem of Joy Harjo’s ‘Perhaps the World Ends Here.’
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SOME DINNERS ARE BETTER LEFT A TOMB

After Joy Harjo’s ‘Perhaps the World Ends Here’

We assembled the kitchen table proper. The same time every year.

The removable leaf adds two extra chairs, if the residential ghosts
decide to attend.

We throw a red cloth over the top, as if it was an act of preservation
but we all know red stai…

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