ban·yan (ban-yan) n. an East Indian fig tree (Ficus benghalensis) of the mulberry family with spreading branches that send out shoots which grow down to the soil and root to form secondary trunks.

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Poetry

...Your close breath on the window fogs
and you draw your finger through,
draw your heat into that fog
dissipating it. And though
you never meant to
stay, always meant to
leave, you have stayed, everywhere
you have ever been,
as though you have never been anywhere else.

Fiction

...He could often be found sitting at his wooden desk opening important envelopes with a long sterling silver letter opener. Its shine attracted her. "Don’t touch that sweetheart, it’s sharp, you’ll cut yourself."...

Book Reviews

...The book can almost be considered a rarity within a rarity. A biography that not only approaches its title subject with almost surreal honesty, but approaches the heavily misconstrued decade of the 1920's with the caution and genuine interest of a historian...

Contributors

...He has been happily married for thirty-one years to a wonderful woman who forgives him for writing verse as well as for all of his other vices.

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