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The Poetry

by Zachary Forrest y Salazar

A row of garage doors leading out to Santa Barbara fog.

2024.59

I'm so conscious of my backwoods origin when I'm in California. I know most people here don't see it, but that doesn't stop me from thinking they do. And when I'm Missouri, I feel like like the fanciest prick to ever walk Main Street.

Frank Stanford reading on the porch with his shoes off

2024.58

It's ludicrous to posit, for an infinitesimal unit of time, that poetry followed me from a previous life or that there's prior art for why I'm so comfortable with Death.

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2024.56

Somehow I keep thinking I've written all the poems I need to about my father. This one didn't exactly come from nowhere but let's just say I wasn't expecting it.