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Drouth

Kent Gramm

I invoke the air in rage,ย  am like a cancer in a cageโ€” only myself to burn, to burn;ย  mere glass and sun on an empty stage. Pick and...

Simple Anna

Kent Gramm

Simple Anna liked the words although she didnโ€™t understand what many of them meant. Her man sometimes could make them into worlds where forests shaded green young girls. The...

Man in a Glacier

Kent Gramm

The mountainside failed. But whenย  we saw that deep spot the dead sunย  came back heavy as an engineย  and my pick rattled like a gun. The ice unravelled;...

Aceldama

Kent Gramm

Eternity is uncorrupted light; the world proceeds by interrupting sight, exchanging day and night. Half the acts of earth avoid the sun; much that’s done may be begun by...