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You sleep on sheets frosted with our lotion and sand, a yellow carnation tucked behind your ear, arcade screams and swatches of oompah music wafting from the boardwalk, backed by the steel-brush [...]

Jeffrey Franklin teaches Victorian Literature and writing at the University of Colorado at Denver and serves as poetry editor for the NC Literary Review. His poems have appeared in Many Mountains [...]

If not “quick as a snake,” then quick enough   I bring the brick’s end down On his head in one tamping motion.   But that cliché is wrong: snakes take life Slowly, depending more on camouflage, [...]