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John Slater
For FQH
another day another
nervous breakthrough
Rick from the kazoo
factory called for
Paul again. He’s gone
to Calvaire New Brunswick
to run the snowplow and
bake the casserole.
Nobody here but us
5 monks 25000
chickens… Fanny wrote
to ask Where are you?
(as God said to Adam
in the garden). Are you
ok? in fact it seems as she
once said herself I’m
permanently alright
John Slater is the author of a full-length collection, "Surpassing Pleasure," a chapbook, "Lean," and, most recently, co-translator of "This and That: Short Poems of Zen Master Ryokan." His work has appeared in various journals, including PN Review, Drunken Boat, and Juked.
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