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Today's poem is "In a Landscape: XXXIV"

from Crazyhorse

John Gallaher is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, co-written with G.C. Waldrep. The poems in this issue are from the book length non-fiction memoir poem In a Landscape, coming out from BOA Editions in 2015. He lives in rural Missouri and co-edits The Laurel Review.

Other poems by John Gallaher in Verse Daily:
July 12, 2012:   "In a Landscape: XLI" "If only you could burn memories in a little pile..."
May 17, 2012:   "Revelation in Slow Time" ( with G.C. Waldrep) "Here, where no one is in a hurry..."
May 9, 2012:   "Rose as Red" ( with G.C. Waldrep) "It's still not good enough. And you were always told..."
December 22, 2011:   "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" "The best idea I ever had..."
September 4, 2011:   "The Bridge at Rest" ( with G.C. Waldrep) "The bridge is dreaming again...."
July 6, 2009:   "The House Rhapsody" "For the difficulty of dinner tables..."
May 7, 2009:   "Duly Noted" "Every now and then you've simply got to empty it all out..."
January 23, 2009:   "What We're up Against" "On the way home from the funeral..."
June 8, 2007:   "Earth-tone Anecdote" " They are speaking in the other room..."
May 12, 2007:   "When I Say World I Mean Please" " We begin somewhat after the beginning, in..."
January 4, 2007:   "A Guess Is Spiritual Then, & Will Try to Help You" " Two pregnant women are walking together under the portico...."
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" " The children are running across the field, each..."
May 26, 2005:  "No Encores. No Autographs." ""When I was little, and could float..."

Books by John Gallaher:

Other poems on the web by John Gallaher:
Eight poems
"In a Landscape: XXXVII"
"The Glass Bridge Theory"
"In a Landscape: XXV"
"In a Landscape: XXVII"
"In a Landscape: XIV"
"In a Landscape: LVII-LXV"
"In a Landscape: XLVI-LXVI"
Three poems
Four poems
Two poems
"Still Life"
"The Poem from the Poem: Ars Poetica II"
Three poems
"Bomb Went Off"
"On Your Brilliant Escape"
"A Guidebook to When Things Were Better"
"A Guidebook to The Afterlife"

John Gallaher's Blog.

John Gallaher according to Wikipedia.

John Gallaher on Twitter.

About Crazyhorse:

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October 3, 2012:   "Flow" by Maxine Scates
October 2, 2012:   "Building the Waterfall" by Sarah Barber
October 1, 2012:   "Pilgrimage" by Rebecca Morgan Frank
February 21, 2012:   "from 'Clangings'" by Steven Cramer
February 20, 2012:   "Genealogy (rest)" by Danniel Schoonebeek
February 14, 2012:   "Epithalamium" by Carolina Ebeid
August 4, 2011:   "Near Miss" by Michael Chitwood
August 3   "The Pier" by Christopher DeWeese
August 1   "The Estate of Single Blessedness" by Mary Ruefle
February 18, 2011:   "Like a Daffodil" by Mary Ruefle
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January 19, 2011:   "Valentine with saints and sharps" by Joni Wallace
September 27, 2010:   "Timbered" by Emily Rosko
September 26, 2010:   "Cell Phone God" by Henry Hart
September 24, 2010:   "Not Something To Be Captured, Did You See the Signs?" by Lucy Anderton
January 21, 2010:   "Aubade with whales" by Bob Hicok
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July 9, 2009:   "The Fox" by Dean Young
July 6, 2009:   "The House Rhapsody" by John Gallaher
July 1, 2009:   "Matryoshka" by Teresa Pfeifer
June 29, 2009:   "The Euphoria of Peoria" by Dean Young
January 9, 2009:   "Go On, Sure, Why Not" by Gail Wronsky
January 8, 2009:   "Psalm against a Rapture" by K. A. Hays
January 7, 2009:   "In the hospital parking lot" by Marianne Boruch
July 26, 2008:   "Fire" by Edip Caserver, translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast
July 21, 2008:   "(detail)" by Billy Collins
January 6, 2008:   "bearing on the glory of love" by Deborah Bogen
January 5, 2008:   "The Dime-Store Parakeet" by Gary Soto
June 15, 2007:   "O Mouth Fable" by Elena Karina Byrne
June 12, 2007:   "Eat This" by Nance Van Winckel
June 11, 2007:   "Inside the Body" by Nathan Hoks
December 24, 2006:   "Northwest" by Stacie Cassarino
December 21, 2006:   "If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In" by Kerri Webster
December 18, 2006:   "Salt" by Gary Soto
June 11, 2006:   "Eight" by Todd Smith
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" by John Gallaher
June 7, 2006:   "Bitterness" by Charlie Smith
June 5, 2006:   "Again (Wrightsville Beach)" by Robert Creeley
December 23, 2005:   "Spell for Setting the Sun" by Susan Meyers
December 20, 2005:   "And the Wound Says" by Nance Van Winckel
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May 19, 2005:  "Levels" Alexandra Teague
May 18, 2005:  "Poem with No Moral at the End" Charlie Clark
November 28, 2004:  "Spring and Winter, Coeval" by Charles M. Israel, Jr.
November 26, 2004:  "Botanists Who Feel Excluded Rejoice" by Anthony Lacavaro
May 23, 2004:  "Template" by A. V. Christie
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