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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"></span><br><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">He sleeps</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">On an alphabet quilt </span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">He wakes</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">When the sunlight</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">Pours into his notebook</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">He dines</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">On a breakfast</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">Of memory</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">Hidden in shadow</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">He works</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">Walking slowly</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">Through my skull</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">Until every day is identical</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">The last   The last    The last</span></font></b></div>
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</font></span></b></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none">John McKernan</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"> is now a retired comma herder. He lives--mostly--in West Virgina where he edits ABZ press. His most recent book is a selected poems, </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><i>Resurrection of the Dust</i></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal">. He has published poems in </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>, <i>The Paris Review</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>Virginia Quarterly Review</i> and many other magazines.</span></font></b></div>
</span><div><br></div>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>