Kimberly Blaeser, Issue 27

 


This Guy Back Home

Always the last fish house
left on the lake.
Day he pulls it out
the ice breaks up.
He's that kind.
T he one all the old ladies want
to take to bingo
and not just for his luck.
He's the kind
can make everyone laugh
can sing Indian songs
can wear his hair long
swaying
as he shadowboxes
the county sheriff.
Watch that one...
my uncle says,
and I say Yesss.

--Kimberly Blaeser
Copyright © 2001 by Free Lunch Arts Alliance

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Billy Collins, Issue 18

Steven Coughlin, Issue 39

Philip Dacey, Issue 6

Stephen Dunn, Issue 34

David Hernandez, Issue 23

Mary Lucina, Issue 26

Cathy Song, Issue 21

R. T. Smith, Issue 38

Charles Harper Webb, Issue 25

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