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Christien Gholson

Christien Gholson is the author of On the Side of the Crow (Hanging Loose Press, 2006) and the chapbook The Sixth Sense (Modest Proposal Chapbooks, 2006). He would like to be reincarnated as snow dust skipping off the edge of a black cliff into the Rio Grande gorge in Northern New Mexico. His work can be seen online at Mudlark, 2River, Big Bridge, Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, and Skidrow Penthouse.

For Michaela, who can't stand work anymore

11 February 2008
Vol. 7, No. 4
poetry

The only store in walking distance

is the one for the rich. So many aisles; bright

and convenient as Dinner-Nirvana: Tofu

from Iowa, rice from California, cherries

from Chile. Everything fresh-

frozen in plastic. I can feel The Invisible-Hand-

of-the-Market reaching into my pants.