A wheelbarrow full of plums.
Horses that survive famine.
Weddings for every occasion.
Actual air.
Biographies of niggers
never known.
Sudden shifts in kindness.
A ruined sky.
A bag of lawn clippings
to fall from a truck
onto the hood of your moving car.
This grave you enter
whether you want to or not.
Roger Reeves is currently a Ph.D. student in Poetry and Poetics. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, American Literary Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, and the Indiana Review, among other magazines. Kim Addonizio selected his poem "Kletic of Walt Whitman" for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, a Bread Loaf Work-Study Scholarship, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. He holds an MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas. His plays have been produced in Austin and Atlanta and have won numerous awards. In the fall, he will join the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago as an assistant professor of poetry.
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