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    Fall '23

    KEVIN A. RISNER

    We had it. We did

    at one time, before

    nature fell, with her

    shadows dropping down

    across our path. We

    saw the farthest we

    could to the east, an

    empty liquid world

    that soon would rise up

    to eat the hotels that

    ate the forests. When

    dinner was finished,

    dessert was a string

    of palms always in

    the way. They are all

    always in the damn way.

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    Kevin A. Risner (he/him) is a writer, runner, and beer aficionado from Ohio. He is the author of Do Us a Favor (Variant Literature, 2021), You Thought This Was Just Gonna Be About Cleveland, Didn't You (Ghost City Press, 2022), and There's No Future Where We Don't Have Fire (ELJ Editions, forthcoming in 2025).

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