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The Round is a literary magazine based at Brown University. We accept submissions of prose, poetry, and visual art from a wide variety of genres. We also publish an array of writers, from students to already established writers. A round is an ongoing musical conversation that draws on and responds to the voices that have come before it. The Round aims to renew this conversation in literature. By remembering the relationship between reader and writer, we may restore reverence for the written word. To be new does not require an edge; new voices can be part of The Round. To be inclusive is to reflect the dimensional fullness of our name.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Sonnet by Lucy Kissel

Let us shutter at she who’s tormented:

Her body, let’s freeze, her sentiments, let’s braid.

For she’s cried aloud and not repented-

She is sunless- we must steal her shade!

That voice of anguish- what gruesome chorus,

For one whose thoughts we ought best disavow,

Lord, does she notice that earth’s not porous-

Now here is inertia, let us kowtow!

O, to be born we must lack forethought,

We put on dress and shove stone in pocket,

Better to drown than to be so distraught,

Worse to lose it and better to lock it.

Lacquer my eyes shut- I do lack varnish,

Sew my mouth tight and make me your garnish.

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