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On Catching the Chupacabra Blues

Morningside Blues

Bathhouse of the Winds

On Catching The Chupacabra Blues

                      I would go to California.

I would write a brittle hymn.

           Down three dark alleys,
           rain in the rain-

           trees, Hell
           is used up, Summer

           Pastoral—

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Morningside Blues

One street

           light of my rose-
           -white

           darkness, 6A

           M: burying

           trees

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Bathhouse of the Winds

Spiral staircase
to

a few
more daylights,

isn’t so much to
ask

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MICHAEL KEENAN received his MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. His first chapbook, TWO GIRLS, was published by Say No Press in 2009. His poems are forthcoming in Poetry International, Inter|rupture, Blue Fifth Review, and Shampoo, among others. His poem, “A Sexual History Of Binghamton, New York,” featured in A-Minor Magazine, was recently nominated for a Pushcart prize. He currently drives a waffle truck in Northern Florida.

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