John Craun
And Spring
or maybe that’s us
on tour with a cover band,
singing along
with every rendition
of brown dead grass
another morning in our jackets
on a road across cheekbone
hills,
another morning in a truck made
of cold hands
we are the devout crossing the
bridge
and stop, to look
at the river
which is not the river
but has new muscles and weight
there is confusion
over whose coffee
has a black lid
we continue, but notice
the skin of winter is pulled
tight
and pinned at the edges by
silos
John Craun is a twenty-six year old resident
of Madison, New Jersey. He is on the editorial staff of Square One
(a literary annual published by the University of Colorado Press), and has
recently finished work on his first book of poems, In The Country.
Poems from this book have been published by Word Riot and
Zacatecas, and will soon appear in 3AM Magazine and
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