by Philip Venzke

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Farmer
right forearm on barn
face in elbow
left hand yawning
above the weeds
crumpled telegram
of twenty-one words
forever lost

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Philip Venzke grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. His poetry is widely published in magazines throughout the U.S. and Europe. His chapbook Chant to Save the World was a winner of The James Tate International 2021 Poetry Prize (published July 2022 by SurVision Books, Ireland). His second chapbook Rules to Change the World was published by Finishing Line Press in November 2023. His poems also appear in Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry (an International Anthology) edited by Jonas Zdanys, Lamar University Press, 2022.

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