Gary McDowell's Aflame won the 2019 White Pine Press Poetry Prize and has just been published. He is the author of five other books, including, most recently, Caesura: Essays (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2017). His poems are forthcoming in, among others, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Cimarron Review, and The Journal.

Other poems by Gary McDowell in Verse Daily:
August 26, 2020:   "Considering The Options" "So I say to the wind: I'm sorry to want...."
February 7, 2020:   "The Itch" "Each day a day to hide in. Overhead, the geese..."
June 14, 2016:   "Autumn Takes Inventory" "I have an extra pair of goggles, a grandfather..."
May 7, 2014:   "Repent" "because nature is a haunted house..."
November 11, 2010:   "Ovaries" "The body of water that cries..."
March 25, 2010:   "How to Say I Love You" "On evenings when my dogs and I circle the block..."

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Other poems on the web by Gary McDowell:
"Long Hunter State Park, Late Winter"
"The Lazarus Reflex"
"Symphony: A (Re)Phrasing"
"The Bed, The Chair..."
"How Mosquitoes Came to Be"
"Shuttlecock"
"Aubade (I've noticed)"
"Third Metatarsal"
"Nectar"
"Winter"
"Yellow Jackets"

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