Contributor: J.K. Durick

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These are dark days
dark summer days
with their storms so strong

they tear families apart
knock trees down
blow holes in the afternoon.


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J. K. Durick is a writing teacher at the Community College of Vermont and an online writing tutor. His recent poems have appeared in Eskimo Pie, Pacific Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, and Muddy River Poetry Review.