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Bruce Taylor

Bruce Taylor

Bruce Taylor is the author of The Longest You've Lived Anywhere: Poems New and Selected. His poetry has appeared in such places as Able Muse, The Chicago Review, The Nation, The New York Quarterly, Poetry, RATTLE and The Writer’s Almanac.

The Alternate Ending


                Anything can happen


or nothing but never
at the same time.

Ambiguity may or may not
be important here.

Name a solution somebody
already thought of it

the old "two forevers,"
you go or you go on.

The one where you rise
up to the stars

the one when you fall
drunk down the stairs.

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Jack Kristiansen

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Laura Swearingen-Steadwell

Laura Swearingen-Steadwell
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Maureen Anne Sherbondy

Maureen Anne Sherbondy
Reverence