Telephone
those evenings lying in flower
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those nights when your father
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dawn and the radio shilling
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down in our papery skin
Failure
the orange-tinged
maple and the woman
staring at her
fingernails aren’t
to blame
biography
MARK NEELY is the author of Beasts of the Hill, and Dirty Bomb, both from Oberlin College Press. His awards include an NEA Poetry Fellowship, an Indiana Individual Artist grant, and the FIELD Poetry Prize. He teaches at Ball State University.