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Steve Klepetar<\/h1>\n

A Shower of Flame<\/span><\/h2>\n

Surely there is some dislocation
\nhere where tongues<\/p>\n

burn at the breaking
\nof new leaves<\/p>\n

or some provocation
\nwhere robins peck sadly<\/p>\n

in the dry yards,<\/p>\n

for when travelers arrive
\nhungry and cold<\/p>\n

shuddering in blankets
\nand rags<\/p>\n

what can we offer but stone walls,
\ncurses, archers, and a shower of flame?<\/p>\n

Steve Klepetar<\/strong> lives and writes in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where he tries desperately to hold on to his dwindling hydrogen atoms.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Klepetar A Shower of Flame Surely there is some dislocation here where tongues burn at the breaking of new leaves or some provocation where robins peck sadly in the dry yards, for when travelers arrive hungry and cold shuddering in blankets and rags what can we offer but stone walls, curses, archers, and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[231],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nSteve Klepetar: "A Shower of Flame" - 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