The Last Place on Earth

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this autobiographical book of poems the arc</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of a life is considered from childhood to last days ‎</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>each poem a stop along the way.‎</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From remembering how his mother wrote A bird /‎</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>skipped across the surface of the page. To considering</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>how he might choose to spend his last moments‎</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>‎I would read out loud / the way you sometimes</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>like me to every word / a star. Brilliant then dimming.‎</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>