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Gary Hawkins

Gary Hawkins: Insomnia

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

In the bed she assigned to me, too narrow for tonight, taking for her own the couch on which I could just as easily stretch with a three-inch shortening of my straight and narrowed spine; the heat blowing its desert over us all night, competing all night for what little air, I turn as she […]

Filed Under: Contributors 76, Issue 76, Poetry, Poetry 76 Tagged With: Contributors 76, Gary Hawkins, Poetry, Poetry 76

Gary Hawkins: Happy Days

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

We had completed all the usual deportment Conducted breakfast over silence and glances Shared our bed and kissed with out-turned faces Packed your clothes in the trunk without argument Now the wind picks up chasing birds across the lake We hurry the last boxes inside your new place We wait on a small porch as […]

Filed Under: Contributors 76, Issue 76, Poetry, Poetry 76 Tagged With: Contributors 76, Gary Hawkins, Poetry, Poetry 76

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