​E Pluribus Unum

His false teeth.
His wife's sheets
hanging in the East
Room.  His walls of snaking
brick.  His wife saving
portraits from the fire.
His good feelings,
his long trousers,
his coon-skin attire. 
His silver goblet and golden plate.
His sudden death
after hours hatless in cold rain.
Alas, alas:
his many progeny,
his manifest destiny,
his horse, Whitey,
grazing on the White House grass.


Kim Roberts

"Elephant Ear" by Dave Petraglia

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Kim Roberts is the author of four books of poems, including To the South Pole, forthcoming in December 2014 from Broadkill River Press.  She is editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC (Plan B Press, 2010), and co-editor of the web exhibit DC Writers’ Homes.  Her website: http://www.kimroberts.org.

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​Dave Petraglia's writing and photography has appeared in Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Better Homes & Gardens; more recently in Agave Magazine, Cactus Heart, Dark Matter Journal, eFiction India, Loco, Gravel, Petrichor Review, Storyacious, Thought Catalog, theNewerYork, and Vine Leaves. He lives near Jacksonville, Florida. His blog is at www.drowningbook.com