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NORTHEAST ANTI-GHAZALS
by Eric Folsom
$4

NORTHEAST

if you picked any story but this,
I wouldn't know where to begin.

The grey November sky predicting early snow,
The ground already resisting footprints.

A young doe in my garden looks up;
How the mind seeing, loses sight.

Inside where I stand, one cobweb on the ceiling
Delicately twists when the furnace comes to life.

What if I turned my face away
And when I looked back you were gone?

The freezing mud in the driveway
Seizes the tires in their ruts overnight.

I wish for multiple eyes like a spider,
My forehead of shining cobblestones.

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Eric Folsom was born in the seaside city of Lynn, Massachusetts, the home
of Marshmallow Fluff and Lydia Pinkham's herbal compound. For the past 30
years he has lived in Kingston, Ontario, the home of Don Cherry and the late
Air Commodore Leonard J. Birchall, "Savior of Ceylon". Folsom is the author
of three books of poetry, including Icon Driven and Poems for Little
Cataraqui.

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