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Summer 1986 • Vol. VIII No. 3 • Poetry |

The Real

By T. R. Hummer

Years before I knew about the Cave
Or those double-sexed science-fiction
Archehumans of the Symposium,
I first heard of him

On a second-grade field trip tour
Of my miserable hometown library
Where he was reduced to nothing

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T. R. Hummer’s tenth book of poems, Ephemeron, was published by LSU Press in November 2011; his second book of essays, Available Surfaces, will appear in University of Michigan Press’s Poets on Poetry Series in 2012. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and teaches at Arizona State University.

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The blues pianist's bleeding hands trace calligraphy on the keys.   This too is art. And the rabbi's prayer on the killing floor. Ritual slaughter is known as shechita. The knife […]

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Terrorism

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Black wavelets lap against pilings. Bone dust settles on the pier.   The ferryman looks up from his tiller at a man in an Armani suit Who steps out of the […]

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