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ERIN O’KEEFE New and Recent Photographs

STAGE DIRECTIONS FOR APPROACHING AN O’KEEFE

here was a triangle in her face. An elbow. A triangle, emerging from a morass of black puffy coats. So many people jammed together, pretending they were alone in space. She tried to press her head backward to escape, but an orange parallelogram pressed her forward into the elbow, which by way of some shuffling was now a purse. She looked up at the

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