About Gary Hawkins

Gary Hawkins has lived with his wife and their two dogs in Houston for the past five years, but they are now brand-new Oklahomans. He’ll join and develop a new expository writing program at the University of Oklahoma this fall. Not even this move has convinced him that he doesn’t need a fourth copy of Emily Dickinson.

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Holding onto Firmaments

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He is in the open laying something softer down.
Leaves as tokens weigh the ground
And twigs as sextants pull the low sun.

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