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[New post] Three Miles, Uphill in Both Directions

Site logo image Dave Bonta posted: " the sun was a letter of the alphabet then my stomach could pronounce it better than my mouth on the walk to school through two centuries of wreckage past a ghost village and the end of town eaten by the interstate along train tracks we knew to get o" Via Negativa

Three Miles, Uphill in Both Directions

Dave Bonta

Sep 7

the sun was a letter
of the alphabet then

my stomach could pronounce it
better than my mouth

on the walk to school through
two centuries of wreckage

past a ghost village
and the end of town eaten
by the interstate

along train tracks we knew
to get off of when
they started to hum

up over the wooded hill
in the center of town
with its water tank and cemetery

past hidden rooms
with walls of wild grapevines
whispering truancy

down into the industrial classroom
a prison of numbers

where zero seemed to hold
all the keys

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