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in Poetry on November 10, 2010 February 5, 2020

I was prophesied to die at a certain age, and knew nothing that could cure me. Later, much later, the world was stretched out before me like leather, one morning after another. I asked the…

Vernon

in Poetry on October 25, 2010 February 5, 2020

Perhaps, from my youth, the coal burning at Vernon will give me cancer. Perhaps not. Though today, not far from there, I woke to the rain burning the road and also the chickens in…