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Rebecca Dunham

Rebecca Dunham is the author of two collections of poetry, The Flight Cage (Tupelo Press, 2010) and The Miniature Room (TSUP, 2006). She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Winter 2013

Blowout

By Rebecca Dunham

up on the main deck      I seen mud
shooting all the way up to the derrick      gas
& smoke filled      so loud      like taking an air
hose & sticking it in your ear      starboard