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Fortune Told

By / Issue 11

What this means is
the wagon dragged back,
the oxen halted,
a man’s hair and nose cut off:
not a good beginning.

All works © Lydia Davis

LYDIA DAVIS is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the acclaimed translator of a new edition of Swann’s Way and a new translation of Madame Bovary.