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Today's poem is "The Patience of the Land Mine"

from Subtropics

Okla Elliott is currently an Illinois Distinguished Fellow at the University of Illinois, where he works in the fields of literature and trauma studies. He is the author of the fiction collection From the Crooked Timber, the poetry collections A Vulgar Geography and The Cartographer's Ink, and, with Raul Clement, the forthcoming novel The Doors You Mark Are Your Own.

Other poems by Okla Elliott in Verse Daily:
November 4, 2014:   "Tilting Toward Winter" "The air is gray and quiet as the sea's..."

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Other poems on the web by Okla Elliott:
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"Visiting Lenin's Tomb"
"That the Soul Discharges Her Passions upon False Objects"

Okla Elliott on Twitter.

Other poems on the web by Okla Elliott:
Two poems
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Okla Elliott's Blog.

Okla Elliott's Website.

Okla Elliott According to Wikipedia.

Okla Elliott on Twitter.

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