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Dan Gerber is the author of three novels, a short story collection, two works of nonfiction, and numerous books of poems, including A Primer on Parallel Lives; Sailing through Cassiopeia, winner of the 2013 Society of Midland Authors Award for poetry; and Particles (Copper Canyon Press, 2017). 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.

Six Poems

by Dan Gerber

Now

As I grow older, more sodden, and wedded by time
to the earth,
I spend so much more of it dreaming
of spreading out these arms
and letting all the nothing I’ve lived through lift away
the nothing I’ve spent my breath becoming.

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