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  • Any Minute Now
  • Jack Myers (bio)

Without knowing it, all along I have been adding things up, savoring faces, holding grudges, exploring the intricate knots in what happened in the belief that after all the laborious clambering and the confusion of understanding everyone’s point of view, I half-expect to break out of myself and reach some resolving, epiphanic Scenic View

where without knowing it I’d see, after all, yes, something larger and much more subtle was at work, was keeping me balanced, even as the earth was turning at 1,000 mph or when a child looks up helpless at the balloon he’s let go of and the father thinks shit and says to his son it’s going to the moon, I have not become wise.

Jack Myers

Jack Myers, the 2003–04 Texas Poet Laureate, has authored seventeen books of and about poetry, and, since 1975, has taught creative writing at Southern Methodist University. Routine Heaven (Texas Review Press, 2006) is his latest book of poems.

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