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Jack Martin | Poster No. 28 (2000)
Grant Proposal | Elvis Impersonator | Countdown
Jack Martin's poems have appeared in Agni, Crazyhorse,
Ploughshares, Quarterly West, www.wordvirtual.com,
and other journals. His chapbook is Weekend Sentences
(Pudding House). He lives in Colorado.
While you may not think this is the time
to be talking about life insurance,
you couldn't be more wrong.
In 1892, a swarm of monarch butterflies
inundated Cleveland.
Today, forty-foot flames
force my friends out of their home
in the canyon. Trees on fire can explode
and catapult flaming logs through the air.
Burning embers can ride wind for miles.
The sheriff's eyes are wild horses.
He says, I'm only going to tell you once.
There's ice on the moon.
from Countdown
Spread the word. Far and wide,
William Slaughter
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