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D. A. Powell

Poetry

Spring 2013

Calling All Gods

By D. A. Powell

Because I stand with my great unknowing yap and pray for speech. Because I would open my body like a rasping bellows and have you fill it. I do not […]

Poetry

Spring 2009

for the coming pandemic

By D. A. Powell

bootless prayer.  his tongue swoll up, godspeed our sleeper siss goes the air through his slackening cheeks another degenerating, a third ashen, another yielding, of a sudden:     good sir, […]