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The Noncalypse

A Poem by Casey Truax

Then we who cheered for the apocalypseReturn, as planets stagger from alignment,Back to work. So we make our roundsAnd cradle our heads upon our palms..

Two Horses

A Poem by Casey Truax

There is something in the winding of a roadThat makes you wonder, even in the calm,If you could or should have lived another way.This one goes through..

Dishonored Grass

A Poem by Casey Truax

A tribute to Emily Dickinson.

The Pugs

A Poem by Casey Truax

What I read is scandalous, my boy,For it says that pugs are hobgoblinsWith big bug eyes and wrinkly little faces,And it says their pudgy bodiesAre lik..

Transformations

A Poem by Casey Truax

No one waits upon this mailbox anymore.See this patch of grass, this gravel roadThat leads to nowhere.A tall yellow house once stood here,And like eve..

The Chiropractor

A Poem by Casey Truax

The clinic stood at the top of a mountainWhere each more distant row of peaksWas a paler shade of blue. On the wallThe icon of the spine was carved in..

Bellefonte

A Poem by Casey Truax

IRailroad spikes on the windowsillCorrode with the dead cicada.It was there he watched in mourningAs the Bush House burned to the ground.That night he..

Anthropic Principle

A Poem by Casey Truax

Given we must live by starlightWe should expect our sun is yellow,And liquid water must be flowingOn the surface of our planet.Given that the earth mu..