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Do You Believe in Afterlife?

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Casey Dayan

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The Southern Review recently excavated a poem by Aliki Barnstone from 2002, “My Friend Steve Asks if I Believe in the Afterlife.” It begins:

When a boy delivering her eulogy / first uttered “mother,” a baby sparrow/ landed on his head . . .

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Casey Dayan
Casey Dayan is a Rumpus intern and musician. He is finishing up his undergraduate studies in literature and anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he is working on a memoir and trying to one-up Jeff Buckley. Find his twitter here, @caseydayan. Find his band, “Moo,” here.

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