Category: Book Excerpt
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State Worker’s Skeptical Bedtime Prayer
O Lord, methinks I’ll call you Lord. Are youAffixed up there on high, or somewhere else?And us lowdown in murk…
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State Worker Considers the Concept of Dualism, Then Shrugs It Off as Metaphysical Smoke and Mirrors
Again with lightning bugs and blooms. The grassA resurrected green that dusk deepens,Enhances even. Blinking, blinking no lessRealistic as mushroom…
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All the Pretty Paintings
So we go to this gallery—me, Marie, the kids—and it’s not only what I expect, it’s worse. Awful, pointless, white.…
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State Worker Catches Himself in a Lie, Then Realizes Truth is Far More Interesting
It seems I’ve always been the praying sort,If prayer is weeping along with FM songsUpon the lonely road. That human…
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Blood Brothers Revisited
A coworker says blackberries and I’m ten againIn that bramble beside the pasture.Tom is barefoot and giggling.Our lips purple from…
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Old-Time Music
Once again the wide river recalled. A story, a songAn artery of memory.Coffee-colored from summer floods.Meandering west, as I did…
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The Old Country
There on the map but vague in my mind.Blurred through the window As we touch down in rain. Rain like some…
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Santa Always Blows His Cover
It was Christmas 1995 when Mom burnt the bacon and Dad was just getting home. I tore open the packaging…
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Men Without Hearts, Inc.
They say when you fall in love, you give her a piece of your heart. So when things go bad,…