River Run
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Memory tosses furs
over knees like a route

thru muscle, stitching
land they logged

to the river. Iron
over ice sets my teeth

like frost scrapings.
I exhale regrets under

shuffling vapor sheets.
How it is, bringing thrill

back home to fire,
whispering my festering

phrases beneath
ticking & woollens.

Jan Wiezorek writes and paints in southwestern Michigan. The London Magazine, Poetry Center San José, Minetta Review, and The Orchards Poetry Journal, among others, have published his poems. He taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and wrote the ebook Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing (Scholastic, 2011).