Dan Gerber is the author of three novels, a short story collection, a collection of essays, and seven books of poems, including A Primer on Parallel Lives. He has received the Michigan Author Award and the Mark Twain Award for distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature and has had work included in Best American Poetry. Gerber lives with his wife, Debbie, in the mountains of central California.


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To God Himself in the Passing Hours

by Dan Gerber

Through the boy who is me at the moment,
quite out of his mind,
wed to his shadow on the grass
as he twirls to keep it twirling,

and the clatter of the mower whirling
through a still spring morning—
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