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Today Floyd Skloot (bio) Johnny is John now, and Billy is Bill. Though I haven’t seen them in fifty years it feels like we’re boys together still. When his voice breaks, John’s boyhood face appears across the miles, and when Bill speaks of storms we survived on our barrier island home I forget and call him Billy, which makes John gasp because it hurts so much to laugh. The cancer has come back. He says it takes all his strength some mornings just to take half a breath, but then there might be a whole day when he can almost forget, like today. [End Page 116] Floyd Skloot Floyd Skloot will publish two new books in 2014–Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press) and Close Reading, a collection of poems from Eyewear Publishers in the U.K. Copyright © 2014 Johns Hopkins University Press
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