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Fall Runway Report
Marjorie Power

If you could
pack only two
cosmetics, remember:
mournful music

provides
a dramatic
counterpoint
to beige lips,
and beautiful
clothes don’t
always need
a rosy outlook.

The most
important
silhouette
this season
delves deep
into the tenacity
of the human spirit.

And don’t forget
that his cocky
intellect is, in a
sense, the main

character, thrusting its way past pitfalls of feeling,
stopping at the precipice of a nervous breakdown.

To suit every
archetype
the style is
offered in
seven sizes
and three colors.

—
Marjorie Power’s newest full-length poetry collection is Sufficient Emptiness (Deerbrook Editions, 2021). A chapbook, Refuses to Suffocate, appeared from Blue Lyra Press in 2019. The Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, Mudfish, Southern Poetry Review, DASH, and The RavensPerch have taken her work recently.

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