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Allan Peterson
The gift of the future was finding out
how wrong we were about the past
We were so open to everything
it was like unprotected X
We wrote words like leaves that fell
and turned in the current
as a rotating wing reducing pressure
on its cambered face produces lift
Allan Peterson’s recent books are: Other Than They Seem (Tupelo Press, 2016), winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Prize, Precarious (42 Miles Press, 2014), a finalist for The Lascaux Prize and Fragile Acts (McSweeney's Poetry Series, 2012), a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle and Oregon Book Awards.
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