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Gary Metras
USA
Gary Metras has poems in
recent issues of Heavy Bear, Poetry East, Poetry
Salzburg Review, Common Ground Review,
and
Istanbul Literary Review.
His chapbook, Francis d'Assisi 2008
(Finishing Line Press), was a finalist for the
Massachusetts Book Award. His Two Bloods:
Fly Fishing Poems
won the Split Oak Press Chapbook Award for 2010. He
is the editor and letterpress printer of Adastra
Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
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ALL THE FUTURES
Twenty-one toys on the living room
floor
and baby plopped between, looking left,
right, then behind. So many choices
for so small a life. She picks up a block
and shows it to me, as if to ask, “Grandpa,
is this the one?” I smile and say, “Purple
block,” but think how one thing builds
upon another, how the golden walls
of Troy lasted a thousand years, as flesh
fell. With the other hand, she takes
the blue rubber egg with pebbles
inside, shakes it, hands that to me
without knowing all the eggs she carries,
all the futures inside her, waiting.
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