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18 instances of overlooking descriptors

By Kevin McLellan
Poetry•Vol. XXIV No. 3 (Fall 2011)

another barn
another’s

another’s
northeast cage

seafaring
memories of his
all consuming

horny
several

 

sick then
cold then
blank

 

dried
and locked yellow
city
sounding
beautiful

 

a wedding

Kevin McLellan is the author of the chapbook Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010), a collaborative series of poems with numerous women poets. He has recent or forthcoming poems in journals including: Barrow Street, Colorado Review, failbetter, Kenyon Review Online, Western Humanities Review, and numerous others. Kevin lives in Cambridge MA with Frankie the canary, and sometimes teaches poetry workshops at the University of Rhode Island in Providence.

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