DBT Group, Joliet, IL, 2021
Vets drink without reverence,
get sober without memory.
They hush in late afternoon,
dismayed by the nakedness
of transmission line sneakers
and canted shagbark branches.
Miles Varana’s fiction and poetry have appeared in various publications, including Typehouse, The Penn Review, and Passages North. He has previously served as a staff reader and managing editor at Hawai’i Pacific Review. Miles lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he works in journalism and does his best to stay out of the cold.
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