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Morning
David Salner
An old man holds his collar
as the wind blows
through a shabby courtyard.
Children yell
on their way to school.
Under a gray sky
another war begins.
David Salner's most recent poetry collection is The Stillness of Certain Valleys (Broadstone Books, 2019). His debut novel is A Place to Hide. He worked as iron ore miner, steelworker, machinist, and now librarian. His writing has appeared in Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, and North American Review.
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