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Todd Fredson
Todd Fredson’s poetry and non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry International, Blackbird, Court Green, 42 Opus, American Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Gulf Coast, RUNES, Slush Pile and other journals. He is the Director of Programming at the McReavy House Museum of Hood Canal. He lives in the Skokomish Valley, with his wife, Sarah Vap, and their sons.
 
By Todd Fredson
Published on 05/12/2010
 
after Juan Ramón Jiménez
 

Shout for joy!

Shout for joy! But do not

wake the other dead, our friends

after Juan Ramón Jiménez
Shout for joy!

Shout for joy! But do not

wake the other dead, our friends

below the silence

are welcoming you.