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Synopsis
 This volume documents students from the University of Houston reacting to the urban landscape of Houston under the meticulous eye of their poetry teacher, Sarah Cortez.
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“…a new batch of Houston writers explore life in poems that are gritty, throbbing, stubbornly triumphant creations that come from living in the nation’s fourth largest city.”Â
Collegium: The Magazine of [...]
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We didn’t talk
about the LT’s face
not even out of the station,
or at the fuel pumps
at the end of shift. The other
supervisors refused to gossip
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about it. We wondered plenty
though, passing him
in the carpeted hallway
under mean white neon,
eyeing the gouges haphazard
above impeccable uniform shirt.
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It scared everyone
not knowing,
so we pretended
the deep, glistening red
that never healed
wasn’t there. The
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gashes wide [...]
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