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August Ryler Dustin (bio) The season wears a windless dirt road shoulder, a crop of lilies, fields as burnished brown as beach glass, bright beyond the stony odor of sidewalks wet from sprinklers. August: now and always never, deeper, best believerin the lastingness of bees, and boyhood, rust-colored crickets, wet retrievers, teachers working in their rented rooms of plywood. A warbler croons. All afternoon, my dreams keep shimmering with heat from vanished days, slow memories attached to faded scenes— the wavy haze of dust a truck has made before a church's old, unchanged marquee, a bench, a broken van, a dogwood tree. [End Page 96] Ryler Dustin ryler dustin is the author of Heavy Lead Birdsong. His poems appear in outlets like Verse Daily, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, and the Best of Iron Horse Literary Review. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, he has represented Seattle on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam.* Copyright © 2021 University of North Carolina Wilmington
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