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James Reiss

Poetry

Winter 1983

Express

By James Reiss

Younger Son In the indigo nightlight of a Pullman roomette I climb down from my tangle-blanketed berth to sun in the glow from the bulb. I bathe in a bucket […]

Poetry

Autumn 1980

Whole Hours of Us

By James Reiss

Time and again when I entered you I felt fire up my spine, that frail hook and ladder. I felt like a landlord ransacking his rooms with a flashlight and […]