Widely publised in print and online magazines, COREY MESLER has a new chapbook, Piecework, from the Wing and a Wheel Press. Look for MESLER's work in these anthologies Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball (Breakaway Books/Lyons & Burford), Monsters from Memphis (Zapizdat Press), Pocket Parenting Poetry Guide (Pudding Press), Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Press) and Smashing Icons (Curious Rooms).
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COREY MESLERFirst Streetcopyright COREY MESLERThe radio is on too loud, the same song played ten minutes ago. The wind is rattling the cyclone fence. The red buds from the dogwood trees pepper the ground. Tricycles are gathered on the sidewalk in a conference of abandonment. Two cars idle side by side at the top of the hill. Teenage conversation laced into the thick beat of the music. It's almost dusk. Fathers are coming home; papers are scooped up, tucked under left arms. Down at the corner house an old man is trimming his hedges. He's done yard work all day; his wife died a year ago. Darkness comes on. Quiet now, the radio tangled static.
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