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Rustin Larson

Rustin Larson has poems in recent issues of Poetry East, Briar Cliff Review, Natural Bridge and GUD magazine.  The Wine-Dark House (Blue Light Press, 2009) is his latest collection.  Crazy Star, his previous, was selected for the Loess Hills Book’s Poetry Series in 2005. Larson won 1st Editor’s Prize from Rhino magazine in 2000 and has won prizes for his poetry from The National Poet Hunt and The Chester H. Jones Foundation among others. A seven-time Pushcart nominee, and graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing, Larson was an Iowa Poet at The Des Moines National Poetry Festival in 2002 and 2004, a featured writer in the DMACC Celebration of the Literary Arts in 2007, 2008, and has been highlighted on the public radio programs Live from Prairie Lights and Voices from the Prairie. He is the host of the radio talk show Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost http://www.kruufm.com and lives in Fairfield, Iowa.

 

THE COLLECTED DISCOGRAPHY OF MORNING

I went on a trip when I was 16.
Concrete boiled in ballets of paisley,
trees coiled and uncoiled, writhing, it seemed,

in ecstasy.  She said I was merely seeing
time itself accelerated. I never questioned this.
A cold day I will walk

around the courthouse, admire the resin-cast
replica of Liberty, smile as people leave
the Lutheran church for their meals of shadow.

I will think
how it was years ago,
think around the rain-tight skin,

the clothes that spoke, the jeans
that fit, drum-tight, the purse of mandalas,
incantations, the money

like lost wings.
I will play the collected discography of morning,
the rain, the house carved from bone.