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"There is a lot to discover in Darkly Told. It doesn’t offer immediate answers, nor is it meant to do so, but it will repay careful listening. Hopefully, this chapbook will be successful enough to prompt Alicia Cole to make a few more. Fans are better off for its appearance." - Dead Reckonings No. 18
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By Tom Zimmerman
My wife and I have had our morning romp.
I’m eating last night’s flank steak, warm and rare,
black pepper, burgundy, and rosemary
still clinging to the char.
A string quartet
(by Edgar Meyer, if you care) hums from
the stereo. The neighbors’ Sunday news
lies bagged and wet in drying driveways. Geese
honk overhead.
We sleepwalk on a bed
of wind! Like dancing skeletons, we shoot
tequila, lick the salt, then bite a lime!
Or have we mixed the order? Childhood, death,
senility, adulthood, first kiss, birth
all jumbled like a book without a spine.
Or was this ever meant to be a book?
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Thomas Zimmerman teaches English, directs the Writing Center, and edits two literary magazines at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His chapbook In Stereo: Thirteen Sonnets and Some Fire Music appeared from The Camel Saloon Books on Blog in 2012. Tom's website: http://thomaszimmerman.wordpress.com/