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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Dawn Tefft Dawn Tefft is currently working on a PhD in Creative Writing at UW-Milwaukee, where she is Co-Poetry Editor for Cream City Review. Her e-chapbook Field Trip to My Mother and Other Exotic Locations was published in Mudlark in fall of '05. Recent publications include poems in Witness and Court Green and poems forthcoming in Third Coast and Sentence. After growing up in Southern Illinois, she moved to Dublin, and then Galway, Ireland; Seattle; Chicago; and finally Milwaukee. She was surprised to find that of those locations, Milwaukee is her favorite.

collector's edition Dawn Tefft

pre-curious a puddled head, a yolk, I rose from weeds, arms stretched, and left fiberglass clubhouses in my wake fireflies smashed across dark, Einstein's heart a penny show still glowing on the aluminum end of my bat minnows sprouted in the grass when it rainedI dragged, hooked and shallow across kitchen tiles in love with airport taxidermy displays—rabbits and lizards under shatter-proof glass pre-lenora putting his ear to the floor he could hear it raining in the basement the airport bookstore carried watership down, the watchmaker's guide, the r. crumb handbook, jonathan livingston seagull, and a concordance to five middle english poems strangely, paper towels dispensed when he walked by oatmeal sometimes stuck to his beard all day he was a hesitant Leonard Cohen trained a less visible face pre-codices she was rivet and verb a singer auditioning tongues point learning reach a bell who liked her own sound pre-ruins a shared sun is a common roomthe names of singers balmy under an interplanetary sky bedroom fights about buyingrobotic villages on the moon we need more party drinks certain mascots fall in and out of existenceno record of which, when, where, pushed, bribed who first said"space is on fire" pre- some kind of story more like less than this

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