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Randy Koch taught at LCC and TAMIU from 1997-2007, earned an MFA at the University of Wyoming in 2009, and then taught for eleven more years at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives in southwestern Minnesota and is the author of three collections of poetry—Composing Ourselves, This Splintered Horse, and Against the Risen Flesh—as well as two volumes of family history. He is working on a memoir of his twenties and yet another family history. And he runs, just to be sure he still can.
You will not agree with or like all of it, but at least then you can decide what speaks to you honestly and thoughtfully, or what reeks like a late-night skunk or the cow shit you remember from your youth
Because it takes nearly fifty years for light to travel between Draconis and Earth, he/she/it/they would see us not as we are but as we were in about December 1972
The throwing arm smooth and fluid as a whip, the ball slung on a taut line, the cowhide hitting the leather of the glove with a solid thwack
The stench of moral superiority drifts from the complaints of Justices Thomas and Roberts
Ilya Kaminsky: “We Lived Happily during the War, and when they bombed other people’s houses, we // protested / but not enough, we opposed them but not / enough.”
Seditionist arrestees face aftermath of their compulsions; the 725 are but a fraction of the 2,000-plus rioters
If we pay attention, we’ll find a glimmer slipping through the limbs, a bit of light that might cause us to see the truth beyond our own nose and with a clarity and steadfastness not afforded by blind belief or ignorance or excuses. Maybe. Just maybe it casts a trace of truth against the written house.
“Oh, you tiny Texas tyrants
in your frail white hide and drawl,
a-feared of women and all migrants
so you weaponize the law.”
Outside your front door climactic changes are altering life while too many people still stand by and watch
