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T.B. Rudy

T.B. Rudy: Bridges

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

For every bridge that’s marked with paint, scribbled messages proving love with algebraic signs and aerosol devotions of forever, there’s a boy who’s waited up all night to sneak out, alone, cargo pockets rattling with pressure, a navy jogging hood pulled over eyes that never glance at headlights flying below, his teenage bicep flexing, arm […]

Filed Under: Contributors 67, Issue 66, Poetry, Poetry 67 Tagged With: Contributors 67, Poetry, Poetry 67, T.B. Rudy

T.B. Rudy: Building

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

Soot blossoms: nature works in fits and starts wedged in here between two coursing interstates, gray as developers’ photographs. By the creek, rats drink the rainbow runoff of suburban waste, scatter at my flashlight whenever I come back evenings to think, sit beneath this bone-cold chimney standing houseless among bankrupt wrecks: a bulldozer rusted in […]

Filed Under: Contributors 68, Issue 68, Poetry, Poetry 68 Tagged With: Contributors 68, Poetry, Poetry 68, T.B. Rudy

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