Jeffery Bahr lives and works in Colorado as a software engineering consultant. His manuscript Anabasis was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Award. His work has appeared in Chelsea, Court Green, Pleiades, and Verse.
Mountains surround and alliterate: snow
stubborn on the southern slopes. Men wade
into the lake, talking to cutthroats. Imagine
a buggy whip free of indenture. Long lines
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