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Leaving Iowa
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Category:  Action/Thriller
Publisher: Briery Creek Press
ISBN-10:  097744712X
Pages: 63
Copyright: 2007
ISBN-13: 9780977447121

Award-winning first book from a nationally recognized poet!



Excerpt
Cardboard Urn
After the funeral, your hair
and skin baked to ash,

your body brought back in a gray box
with a bag of soot inside,

box and bag on a pedestal by the table,
your brother came to see you.

He asked where you were,
and when I said By the table

he thought I said On the table
and he said Here?

peeking under the lid
of an empty drinking cup,

as though we had gone
to the local Kwik Stop

for gas and fountain drinks
then decided what the hell?

and used a cardboard Pepsi cup
for our mother’s urn.

He actually thought that,
and his eyes got wide

as he stood in the dining room,
unspeakably appalled,
staring at that cup

and mother, oh sweet jesus
how I wanted to laugh.


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