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| ***BIO*** Chris Middleman grew up in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and now calls Seattle his home. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several publications including The New York Quarterly, Zygote in My Coffee, Pemmican, and The Commonline Project. He is a regular contributor for Spectrum Culture. http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/chrismiddleman |
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| My Grandfather's Garage |
| by Chris Middleman |
| I'd watched enough PBS
by age 10 to be made uncomfortable by the Nixon portrait hanging there, torn from an issue of Time, tacked on a cabinet with magnets long loosed from their decorative plastic shells that were mementoes of state landmarks and roadside attractions While unfit for refrigerator display, they were fine holding up a proud portrait of an unphotogenic man whose values must earn your respect once you've spent your early 20s far from home, roasting on the tarmac of some Brazilian airfield |
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| June 2009 |
| 119 |