Homecoming: Fourth of July
Steve Gehrke
Gas-fumes, starlight, my car on Empty, all the stations
closed. The talk on the radio’s of UFOs, nonbodily
abductions, the consciousness extracted and replaced.
 About Steve Gehrke Steve Gehrke’s third book, Michelangelo’s Seizure, was selected for the National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from University of Illinois Press. His second book, The Pyramids of Malpighi (Anhinga, 2004), won the Philip Levine Prize. His other awards include a grant from the NEA and a Pushcart Prize. Also In VQR |
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