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Nuremburg, Germany, 1945.

" 'Frog, is that really you?' said Toad.

'Of course it is me,' said Frog.

'And you are your own right size?' asked Toad.

'I think so,' said Frog."

--@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

From sniper’s nests near the CN Tower to “tennis court war rooms” where insurgents gathered and planned counterattacks without arousing suspicion, Vandor has imagined a grim future for the city.

not allowed to lend medicine
pangs from the cloud-pirouette
leak into podcasts
skullchattersome chert

& the pen in my hunched hand
is chess with hermits
rust-sweetened sweater
to uncover the curl of it

1949-A-No.1.