Stephen Bunch

Jul 01, 2010 No Comments by Sea Stories

Inland, See

the scene
suspended
forget this terrain
is terrain, the lies
your father told you
the lies you told your son

see inland
under the skin of the river
the sandbar forming
water & earth confused
step back in this air
stand on the littoral
& see again

against that backdrop
which could be the sky
the sea
rushing back over
the prairie

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Stephen Bunch’s work has appeared recently in Umbrella and The Literary Bohemian. From 1978 to 1988, he published Tellus, a magazine featuring work by Jack Anderson, Jane Hirshfield, Denise Low, Paul Metcalf, Edward Sanders, and others. He received the 2008 Langston Hughes Award for Poetry from the Lawrence Arts Center.

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Casey R. Schulke grew up along the Kuskokwim River in a rural Athabascan village in Alaska fishing for king salmon and mushing her sled dog team. She now resides on the shores of Resurrection Bay in Seward, Alaska. Casey's a poet, a naturalist, a dog-lover, has two birds, and is married to a wonderful man.
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