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Not a lack-hole, by and by.
 
Bait.
 
       Bide.
 
              Vowel-bend, and dipper-sip.
 
—Rife as broth!

© 2005, Atsuro Riley
From: Poetry, Vol. 186, No. 2, May
Publisher: Poetry, Chicago

Atsuro Riley

Atsuro Riley

(United States of America, 1960)

Atsuro Riley grew up in South Carolina and lives in California. His heavily stressed, percussive, consonant-rich, free-verse poems conjure up the elemental images of the lives of people inhabiting a specific, acutely portrayed landscape. His poems are dense with impressions, voices and glimpses of people who have experienced the Vietnam War, rural life, and the South. Though grounded in a world...

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Not a lack-hole, by and by.
 
Bait.
 
       Bide.
 
              Vowel-bend, and dipper-sip.
 
—Rife as broth!

From: Poetry, Vol. 186, No. 2, May

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