Claire CaldwellSOUNDS A RIVER MAKESGas leak, ventilator, bear clicking its teeth.Twelve hundred caribou hooves on frost.Lips around bottle, bottle slurringon bar. Rattling aspen, dusky grouse,sheets drying outside. Grandmothersstuffing envelopes in a high school gym.Sex in a sleeping bag, house on fire.A children's choir after one kidfaints, before the rest start to sing.from Gold Rush by Claire
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