fall preview: seven lines from Ken Meisel’s “Pictures”

The voice of a man, you ask? It is a broken

string full of unbearable literature. This is

what he would tell me as I drank there

in the dense summer evenings with him.

And a woman, you ask, she is a salvation, yes?

She is the richness of the upturned earth,

her eyes wide awake with sudden swallows.

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