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Jan 17, 2019 09:39

VIEW FROM THE HIGHWAY

immodest
of a rural town displaying like that

its hill long
of uneven graves that sink
and pull in their headstones after them

as if the dead wanted
to take back even their names from the world

By Justin Hardecker

Justin Hardecker lives with his husband in Mechanicville, New York, where they run a small home bakery. His work has been published in Ploughshares and The Drunken Boat.

poetry, justin hardecker

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