Batt Anderson Poems

To this day, the coolest car I've ever known was our Ford Falcon.

What I understand now, at the time could only feel, was what made this the coolest car ever—wasn't what the car was—but what my father made it become.
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Moans of minor chord jazz slip in unlit dreams
Morning reminds me
Muslim prayer
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I remember being 7 or 8 years old, asking Pop if God is real.

He said, "yes."
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