The Dirty Napkin

Poetry • Fiction • Letters

Current Issue — Volume 3.3, Summer 2010

About the Author

J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently, Conflicted Light (Salmon Poetry, 2008). His poems have been published in Diagram, No Tell Motel, Third Coast, Natural Bridge, Shenandoah, Bateau, Verse Daily, and others. He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press. His next book, Inner Cities of Gulls, will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2010.

Other Works in the Dirty Napkin

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Two of Hearts

J. P. Dancing Bear

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for Peter Godeschalk

here you build your pyramids in the quiet: seashells for ornate foundations: the distant ghosts of the oceans sounding from each: you hold the two of hearts above your head and dream: [ . . . ]

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