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When the elevator malfunctioned we went from strangers to friends to casual dating but eventually could deny our love no more than a bird its song, and in those cramped quarters we saw our kids off to college, watched our 401k ebb and flow with the slow motion histrionics of a glacier’s migration, and when our cancers metastasized we leapt hand in hand down the shaft, too old and in love for frivolous chemo, plunging to the floor where we first met.
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Matthew’s poetry was featured in The Best American Poetry 2007, and his chapbook, Silent Partner, won the 2013 Sow’s Ear Press Chapbook Award. He received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in 1999 and now works as an insurance consultant in Chicago.
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