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Percy Priest


   


Listening to the choir, their tune is done
With no bushes growing in it—endless blowing—
How long can you go without your medicine
How long until the police complain about the tea kettle
Nothing stops from whistling—
We could have a place here, or nothing, no ironwood tree
Nothing burning plastic
The first tree to bloom


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Brendan Sherry lives in Greeneville, TN. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, New South, Birdfeast, Guesthouse, The Spectacle and elsewhere.