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A Facebook Post
"'In keeping with his profession,
his knowledge is always zuhanden.'
This is from somewhere or other. Can anyone place it?"
My Brother-In-Law
"ready-to-hand
would that we were
in the land of milk and honey"
Mine (A Private Joke)
There is irony in my retreat into nature.
Runoff
John Doe
This is the thing he would always share:
He liked the smell of his own saliva;
his urine, too.
Object
her
helpless
against the advice of friends
Haiku
deaf from birth
our neighbor watches the rain....
looking for
the simple life
Advice
as against solitude
the beauty of sound advice
the broad beauty of experience
in the abandoned field
an innocuous-looking stream -- runoff
from the streets of the neighborhood
Eric Burke lives in Columbus, Ohio. More of his work can be found in elimae, Right Hand Pointing, Alba, Spillway Review, JMWW, Word Riot, Tipton Poetry Journal, Haibun Today, and nibble. Work is forthcoming in The Driftwood Review and Heavy Bear.
