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Collier Nogues

Collier Nogues was recently the Fishtrap Writer-in-Residence in Wallowa County, Oregon, six hours east of her home in Portland. Her first book will be published in Spring 2011 by Four Way Books, and poems of hers have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, jubilat, Barrow Street, Washington Square, and Third Coast.

Cousin Charles

28 April 2009
Vol. 9, No. 1
poetry

I don't know how he does it, even how he

walks or holds a pool cue, as angry as he is.

Mine's like his scar,

but the footprint is the shape of a horse-hoof stamped into my back and chest,

both sides.

Supper at the Flying J

25 April 2009
Vol. 9, No. 1
poetry

That he died in public makes it worse:

privacy folded inside out

like his black socks in the suitcase on the seat-rack.

It's like us to have imagined we could work in the car.