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By the time a wrinkled woman kicked sand at me beside the spot and a man offered his flashlight with advice “You can’t leave anything,” I was shaking my head. Besides, I didn’t trust them, by [...]

Impossible. Sacrament of failure. Received, no doubt, as it ever was and ever shall be. Yet this morning, bowed to a new week, I feel that I might offer some token. Acknowledge, perhaps, your [...]

Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and edits the journal, Poems & Plays. He has published four collections of poetry: Presently A Beast [...]

Was it where they lost me that I found myself? —Neruda My mother looks for me in photographs affixed in books—held by a hospital blanket, potato arms at the screaming melon of my [...]