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      September 15, 2023Life StormCorey Mesler

      We who have chuckled aloud
      during the making of children,
      ought to reform.
      —Marvin Bell

      The hurricane which is new-life
      came to live with us, I guess
      it’s been about four years ago.
      It knocked us around a bit.
      It turned one of us inside out,
      the other into a Gordian knot.
      The medicine we needed we kept
      by the bedside, the bed where
      we conceived our child. The
      nostrum is love of course, just
      like in any fairy tale, in any
      fairy tale where the winds still
      whistle through the woods
      dark as the future, dark as the cave
      from which we pulled her, squalling.

      from Issue #15 - Summer 2001

      Corey Mesler

      “With my wife, I own one of the country’s oldest and best independent bookstores, Burks Book Store in Memphis, TN. For the past few years I’ve been working in prose and poetry with dangerous mixtures of whimsy, bent mythology, and personal spirituality, cobbling together book-length manuscripts about the multi-varied world around me.”

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