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Poetry · Volume 13, Number 1

Of Current

F. Daniel Rzicznek

Every where is a ceaseless center—

the black SWAT uniforms

(a series of centers colliding)

hustling like magnets through spring snow,

into perpetuity. Behind each ripple,

blood driving in circles—behind

the blood, loud drums: cars

pounding by on an overpass

with me waist-deep underneath.

(No walleyes to show for the morning—

cold as it is, the turbid river, its pulse.)

A high bridge in higher wind:

all of meaning up there going by.

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F. Daniel Rzicznek

F. Daniel Rzicznek is the author of two poetry collections, Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2009) and Neck of the World (Utah State University Press, 2007), as well as two chapbooks, Vine River Hermitage (Cooper Dillon Books, 2011) and Cloud Tablets (Kent State University Press, 2006). His poetry has appeared in Boston Review , The New Republic , Orion , Mississippi Review , Hotel Amerika , and Shenandoah . Rzicznek teaches writing at Bowling Green State University and is coeditor (with Gary L. McDowell) of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010). Photo by F. Daniel Rzicznek