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Michael Shewmaker is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Born in Texarkana, Texas, he earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife.

Intersection

an iPoem

by Michael Shewmaker

A boat-tailed grackle counts the passing cars
from the traffic light he perches on.
The ferryman of Fairmont Avenue,
his eyes are scars.

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