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Larchwood, Iowa<br />
Dylan Debelis<br />
You’ll come back,<br />
you always do.<br />
To these flooded plains,<br />
this Michigan drawl,<br />
Fourth of July bottle<br />
rocket fizzle<br />
pop up<br />
explode power lines,<br />
stitches, guitar string<br />
twitches, your brother<br />
plucks<br />
uneven time.<br />
You’ll come back<br />
to the pastures, stale manure,<br />
fingers calloused, twine wrapping hay bales<br />
tight,<br />
night cricket violin<br />
making monsters out of cumulus<br />
clouds so large they punch into your throat<br />
stealing breath.<br />
Down by the river<br />
comparing your nakedness to hers,<br />
wondering if the fireflies in your jar<br />
will imprint this like a flashbulb,<br />
her hand leading where your hand leads,<br />
in the dark empty stomach of God,<br />
your memory is a desperate crucible<br />
banging an anvil<br />
that used to spark so easy.<br />
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