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This poem is from the chapbook Lines to Time by Max Orkis (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/lines-to-time-by-max-orkis/
Max Orkis‘s prose and poetry have appeared in The Bookends Review,The Fictional Café, Grand Little Things, North Dakota Quarterly, the Atomic Flyswatter anthology, Weber — The Contemporary West,The Milo Review, Empty Sink, Words with JAM, the 2011 Grigoryev Competition anthology, Topos, Polutona, Dvoetochie:, and elsewhere. He lives in California with his family and works as an English teacher, a writer/editor in tech, and a narrative designer in mobile games. Read more at https://maxorkis.wordpress.com/publications.
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