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Selected Poems © 2009 Timothy Russell They whirled and flurried from the sky. They came to me in the middle of the night, some silently, some clumsily bumping into things. They stuck their tongues in my mouth. Some slunk along the edge of the river bank like feral cats. Some ran ahead of me like [...]

The Fifty Things Wrong With This Picture © 2009 Timothy Russell None of this will hasten or delay that dazzling flash astonishingly brief on the horizon. Some of these children have never seen a river or an orchard or a pea pod before today. Poppies and impatiens that make you think “cinnamon” instead of “cinnabar” [...]

The Collapse of Summer © 2008 – Timothy Russell Trees on the steep hillside across the river will peak within the next few days, and if things follow precedent, shed their impossible colors soon after. The zinnias did not mean to let themselves get so shabby. The old gray groundhog waddles through the cosmos, fat [...]