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If There Is a Thesis Statement, This Is It Gary Mcdowell (bio) Here's where I leave you. A dream, a quiver. A ficklebit of light after the rain. Squint: I can't really remembernow where I was going. We lick the haze, open ourlips, find again pleasure in what we nibble aimlessly. Seconds become minutes always, but sometimeshours forget the days. There are two threads: The onewe follow and the one we should follow. The differenceis the children are upstairs giggling. On a walk last night, I pulled two downed tree limbs from the path.There was a completeness to the task, somethingbodily and final. The lilac spores, the evening hotlike a too full gymnasium, sweat in my eyes, and all I could think about was coming home to kissthe salt off your brow. We are mostly water after all. [End Page 129] Gary Mcdowell Gary McDowell's Aflame won the 2019 White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was published last September. He is also the author of five other books including, most recently, Caesura: Essays (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2017). His poems are forthcoming in, among others, Poetry Northwest, Cimarron Review, and The Journal. Copyright © 2020 Emerson College
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