John Gallaher's new 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:
November 24, 2023:   "Elegy for Brutalist Architecture" "I have this picture my birth-mother gave me, or maybe it's birthmother..."
March 22, 2023:   "Death Arrives On a Pale Horse" "Someone coughs across the room and the cough travels miles...."
November 17, 2022:   "Family Projects" "It's Day of the Dead Week at the middle school and they're doing projects..."
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..."

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

John Gallaher on Twitter.

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Other poems from Sugar House Review in Verse Daily:
April 9, 2024:   "Houseboats" by Brian Satrom
April 8, 2024:   "Early Storm" by Melanie McCabe
August 25, 2023:   "Quieting" by John A. Nieves   "Patient sleep ends here in the dry dark...."
August 21, 2023:   "[first tango]" by JD Debris
February 21, 2023:   "Holy" by Kerry James Evans
February 18, 2023:   "noyse" by Betsy Johnson
February 15, 2023:   "From Here on Out" by Suphil Lee Park
March 21, 2022:   "After the Shipwreck" by Deborah Keenan
March 18, 2022:   "Divorce" by Rebecca Morton
March 17, 2022:   "Goodbye Horses" by John Sibley Williams
March 16, 2022:   "I Get Why Dorothy Parker Gave All Her Money to the NAACP" by Michelle Bitting
September 10, 2021:   "Jittery Nocturne" by Kate Northrop
September 8, 2021:   "Meltdown" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" by Martha Silano
August 6, 2021:   "Between Jobs" by Lilian Ha
May 17, 2021:   "House Song with Wonder Woman" by Siew David Hii
May 14, 2021:   "I Can't Stop" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
May 12, 2021:   "The Missing Pages" by Mary Crow
May 10, 2021:   "On Pessimism" by Kerry James Evans
July 24, 2020:   "Melancholy Street" by Rhett Iseman Trull
July 23, 2020:   "Lost" by Susanna Lang
July 22, 2020:   "The Men and the Quiet" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
July 21, 2020:   "Casual wind" by Shira Dentz
July 20, 2020:   "Terms of Agreement" by Mary Biddinger
November 14, 2019:   "Apocalypse #2" by David Beebe
November 13, 2019:   "Doppler" by David Beebe
November 12, 2019:   "Fire Country" by Rebecca Aronson
February 20, 2019:   "Hier Gibt es Blaugeerren" William Trowbridge
March 4, 2017:   "Ghost Walk After the Resurrection" by Chelsea Dingman
August 11, 2016:   "To The Astronaut: On Impact" by Lisa Fay Coutley
August 10, 2016:   "To The Astronaut: On Impact" by Cady Vishniac
August 9, 2016:   "The Betta Fish, Christmas" by Julie Danho
November 1, 2015:   "Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself" by Carl Phillips
August 30, 2012:   "from Clangings" by Steve Cramer
December 25, 2011:   "Frost in the Low Areas" by Karen Skolfield
December 23, 2011:   "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis
November 5, 2011:   "Everyone in Goya's Black Paintings..." by Jeff Whitney
April 20, 2011:   "from Clangings" by Steven Cramer
May 25, 2010:   "I Want You" by Weston Cutter

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