I decide to come to you beneath
like an aqueduct pipe
a closed faucet, silent but on fire
ready to quench the wide open thirst
that's taken hold.
--Antonio Porta, Distance In Love
Cell is mind stall, is
bone of brain illumined
in whole
--Clark Coolidge, In Cell
A mouth said a bad word. A foot
kicked me. One brick in the pavement
stared into my left eye, and a noise
came closer and closer--a siren.
--William Stafford, Local Events
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Colette Inez, David Ignatow, George Hitchcock, Raymond Carver, Robin Hudechek,
Lawson Fusao Inada, Antonio Porta, Victor Contoski, Clayton Eshleman, Clark
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