I wouldn’t write at all if it weren’t
for myriad writers before me whose works showed me what was possible. The poems
of this series are small offerings of respect, of thanks, to those muses. –
Brian Beatty
Today’s hero, if news
reports are to be believed,
outpaced passing
highway traffic
that slowed to observe
the unlikely spectacle
of a ghost soldier
riding a zero-radius
lawn tractor
and blasting his high
school trumpet
in tattered Civil War
greys.
He’s the oldest bugle
boy
the world’s ever seen.
Women love him.
– Brian Beatty
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Brian's recent collections of poetry are Dust and Stars: Miniatures and Brazil, Indiana.
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This is easily the most absurd of my micro-tributes, but there's a certain absurdity to Dickey's work if you ask me.
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