John Gallaher's forthcoming book is My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books 2024). He lives in northwest Missouri and co-edits the Laurel Review.

Other poems by John Gallaher in Verse Daily:
October 16, 2020:   "For the King of Nothing Left" "There's this version of Hell I learned as a kid..."
September 27, 2016:   "The Museum of the Occupation" (with Kristina Marie Darling) "So, of course, you have to go in...."
February 19, 2015:   "In a Landscape: XIII" "How many people haven't you married, that you thought..."
March 13, 2014:   "In a Landscape: LIV" "Where's the line between what constitutes repetition..."
December 4, 2013:   "In a Landscape: XXXIV" "If things contain their opposites, why bother? That suffices, I guess..."
July 12, 2012:   "In a Landscape: XLI" "If only you could burn memories in a little pile..."
May 17, 2012:   "Revelation in Slow Time" (with G.C. Waldrep) "Here, where no one is in a hurry..."
May 9, 2012:   "Rose as Red" (with G.C. Waldrep) "It's still not good enough. And you were always told..."
December 22, 2011:   "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" "The best idea I ever had..."
September 4, 2011:   "The Bridge at Rest" (with G.C. Waldrep) "The bridge is dreaming again...."
July 6, 2009:   "The House Rhapsody" "For the difficulty of dinner tables..."
May 7, 2009:   "Duly Noted" "Every now and then you've simply got to empty it all out..."
January 23, 2009:   "What We're up Against" "On the way home from the funeral..."
June 8, 2007:   "Earth-tone Anecdote" " They are speaking in the other room..."
May 12, 2007:   "When I Say World I Mean Please" " We begin somewhat after the beginning, in..."
January 4, 2007:   "A Guess Is Spiritual Then, & Will Try to Help You" " Two pregnant women are walking together under the portico...."
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" " The children are running across the field, each..."

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Other poems on the web by John Gallaher:
"Division (Architecture 5)"
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"In the Style of Our Adornments"
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