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  • Single Male Seeks Someone Who'll Stay
  • Christopher Citro (bio)

I opened the door to get the paper last Sunday, and there was a goose standing on the front step. It looked up at me, then took one step to the side making room for me to pass. So I did. What else was there to do? I walked out onto the lawn, picked up the paper, and walked back to the door. When I opened it, the goose stepped inside and waddled into the living room. I stood outside holding the door. Did a goose just walk into my house? It turned a corner and went into the hallway to the bedroom. I stepped inside. "I'm following a goose into my house," I said out loud as I did. I walked through the living room, turned into the hall just in time to see the goose fly up and out through a window I had not remembered leaving open. "And then the goose flew away," I said out loud to no one. In fact, it was at that instant that I realized finally just how empty my life was. [End Page 1]

Christopher Citro

Christopher Citro's poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Poetry East, Arts and Letters Prime, Fourteen Hills, Cincinnati Review, Cortland Review, Tar River Poetry, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere. He won the 2006 Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for Poetry, and his poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice featured on Verse Daily. He is currently completing an MFA in poetry at Indiana University, where he received the Darrell Burton Fellowship in Creative Writing.

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