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"Release without record," he says, "is a looter's con.
I've seen imagery, interpretation narrow to laws of theology and coalition. I've watched a spiral of seven crows trace the contrail wisp of warplanes, the shimmering sunset wake of gunboats." Like dead ambassadors of family, church, state the Spaniard and I wander, wasted in roles of conscience. Bridges in flames beneath a fogbound moon, the hoax of heat lightning ease the autumn drill of departure. A river reports its destruction to the sea. Leaving is easy. 
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Writer,
wit, and social critic R.T. Castleberry has published work nationally
and internationally, most notably in Another Chicago Magazine,
Snake Nation Press, and Pacific Review. He is co-editor
of Curbside Review poetry journal and associate poetry editor
of the online literary journal, Ardent. |
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