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"All That's Changed #3" by Gary Nolan
Two Poems by Lauren Gordon

Pa Sent Me to Town

Ma sprinkled my calico
make it sweet, Ma
sweet prairie grass sweet, Ma
hit it with spittle
Ma hot striking stranger eyes
all over my body

look at me strangely, Ma
say it with biscuits
say it with blackbirds sweet 
are the uses of adversity
if you live like a barren field
lit with prairie fires 

there isn’t a single rabbit left in this country, mother



Baby Freddie Disappears

  to dirt

under a prairie breeze waves sweet
              clean grass

in the pantry aproned under Ma
              cloven apple

little brother one terrible day he straightened out his little

body and was dead

give us our bread, this daily day
this bread, this rye we have made
               we eat and we under

and Pa’s fiddle sings               and sings                     and sings




Lauren Gordon

Lauren Gordon is the author of four chapbooks, "Meaningful Fingers" (Finishing Line Press), "Keen" (Horse Less Press), "Fiddle Is Flood" (Blood Pudding Press) and "Generalizations about Spines" (Yellow Flag Press).   She is also a Contributing Editor to Radius Lit

​Gary Nolan is a visual artist, photographer and programmer.  He currently works in support of the U.S. space program. You can view more of his work on flickr.
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