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I return to your picture to wound myself.
Like a missing tooth, an old bruise,
I push until I feel something.
I return to your picture, which is not you,
which is a glim only, yet one
that stings like first light. I return because
I want the pain. I return because
pain is the last thing I felt, my preeminent reward.
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COREY
MESLER owns Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis. He has
published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Turnrow,
Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, American Poetry Journal, Thema,
Mars Hill Review, Adirondack Review, Poet Lore and others. A
short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from
the South: The Year’s Best. His 2nd novel, We Are
Billion-Year-Old Carbon, came out in January 2006. His novels have
received praise from Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen
Butler, and others. His latest poetry chapbooks are Short Story
and Other Short Stories (2006), The Hole in Sleep (2006), The
Agoraphobe’s Pandiculations (2006), and The Chloe Poems (2007).
His poem, “Sweet Annie Divine,” was chosen for Garrison
Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. His first full-length
collection of poetry, Some Identity Problems, is due out in 2007.
www.coreymesler.com.
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