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Mike White
NASCAR
Not rolling in liquid fire
or pulled apart by physics.
Not between commercials.
But the way an old dog
half-blind
noses around and around
some quiet
apple-scented
chosen ground.
–from Rattle #32, Winter 2009
Read by Megan
December 12th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Yes. I’m looking for not quite such a violent death.