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Joseph Bathanti
Joseph Bathanti, former poet laureate of North Carolina, is professor of English at Appalachian State University and author, most recently, of Light at the Seam.
The Lost Baseball
for Gavin
Winter’s left shambled the split rail fence. Notched stobs, years sunk...
Blessed thistle
Late spring it sidles from the spermy loam
lost for a spate among the dripping tares—
wild flowers scroll strangled in dross and roam—
sprouting bristly heads of purple hairs...
Jesus is nailed to the cross
One year Marie gave up TV for Lent.
If Jesus Christ could bear His cross, then kite
on it three hours so we’d repent,
sacrifice in return was merely right....
Veronica wipes Jesus’ face
Veronica. Her name rolled off my tongue.Like water. For one moment my thirst ceased,her lovely apron over my eyes flungin the manner a disquieted beast...
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