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like his friends to go under the ice,
to dive down and see
what the river held secret in winter
So he sat on the bank instead, bundled
and waiting for the two divers
to come up from the jagged manhole from Ice Diving, Volume 61, Issue 3 (Fall 2020)
Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
I sent a poem in to an anthology competition I found in the back of Seventeen Magazine. It rhymed – it was a little box of exact rhymes. I remember that one of the lines was “Peace will unite us through all the lands.” Real good stuff. Like everyone who submitted, my poem was accepted and published. I was giddy. My folks bought a copy of the heavy volume that is my poetry Achilles heel now, weighing me down for 25 years as I lug it from apartment to apartment, bookshelf to bookshelf, unable to let it go.