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County Fair Michael Homolka (bio) By latticed blackberries and hairy-hoofed pigsmy mother sits at ease with other mothersas in a didactic Greek myth in which we will neversee each other again or only one of uswill be able to see the other for an unspecified portion of the year Across from the blue-script whomper I didn’t meanfor children like me with cotton candy caught on their eyeballsto fly off the Whippoorwill toward stratosphereswhere blurry quantities of spiritual particleschange places and we have to fend for ourselves but to remain under this blue-and-white-checked boothlistening in to my mother’s afterlit dialoguesamidst cheap existence’s deeper temples asking onlyWhat are these clouds selling? and Why have they forgotten me? [End Page 89] Michael Homolka Michael Homolka’s poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in publications such as Antioch Review, Boulevard, The New Yorker, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares, and the Threepenny Review. He grew up in Los Angeles and works in book production in New York City. Copyright © 2015 Michael Homolka
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