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Julian O. Long
[Poem]
Poem
Nineteenth
Long has taught school at the University of North Texas, North Carolina State University, and Saint Louis University. He is now retired and lives with his wife, Kathleen Farrell, in Saint Louis, Missouri, writes a blog entitled "Out the Backroom Window," and plans to expand Backroom Window Press into a small press publishing venture.
Farm Road Entropy
"...Harvest and waste of passage...
Zapper
"...wondered if
that sound was the last thought..."
After implosion
"...Fifty years is a building's
life, said the college pres..."
End of the World
"...What's wrong will never now be right..."
Anthropocene
"He was once my best
friend..."
Springtime 2019
"...be time enough and time enough
to praise this one more springtime..."
Long Homestead in Winter
"...No one living knows
its history now..."
The Alpine
"...Friday nights
with whole families dancing..."
Silverback
"...we'll cleverly hide away in swamps..."
Chain of Rocks
"...I'd like to walk it one day..."
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Julian O. Long
Julian O. Long's poems and essays have appeared under imprints such as The Sewanee Review, Pembroke Magazine, New Texas, New Mexico Magazine, Horizon, Green River Press, and St. Andrews Press, among others. His chapbook, High Wire Man, is number twenty-two in the Trilobite Poetry Chapbook series published by the University of North Texas Libraries. A self published collection of his poems, Reading Evening Prayer in an Empty Church, appeared from Backroom Window Press in 2018 and can be found at Amazon. Long has taught school at the University of North Texas, North Carolina State University, and Saint Louis University. He is now retired and lives with his wife, Kathleen Farrell, in Saint Louis, Missouri, writes a blog entitled "Out the Backroom Window," and plans to expand Backroom Window Press into a small press publishing venture.
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