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David Koehn

David Koehn has published poems in a wide range of journals including Artful Dodge, Painted Bride, and Alaska Quarterly. His longer manuscript was a finalist in both The Bluestem Award and the National Poetry Series competitions. Mr. Koehn an MFA from the University of Florida, a Bachelors degree in Professional and Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon, an M.Ed from the University of Alaska. He has been a Breadloaf Rural Teacher Fellow, and an attendee at writer’s conferences including Aspen, Napa, Fishtrap, Ropewalk, and Squaw. 

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THE PETTING ZOO

                The alpaca named Dean gave my daughter a rash.
                The frizzled chickens peck away at the toenails
                Of a young woman from St. Louis as she splatters
                Some feed about hoping to attract the biggest cock.
                Caging these beasts seems appropriate, their spectacled
                Ideas of ducks a big part of their departmentalization.

                Coit tower looms large over Broadway’s genteel
                Red light district. Sean Penn has parked in front of City
                Lights to buy a book for his son waiting in the front
                Seat of the Land Rover. Garlic infuses The Stinking
                Rose, leaks down the street where a seven-year-old
                Chinese girl skips across the crosswalk inhaling

THE 52ND FLOOR

                Purity does not appeal to me. Not the sound
                Of a walking stick nor rarified sugar nor coin.
                OE in Americanized German is pronounced
                Like a long A. I don’t listen to Phillip Glass
                But his music makes the best soundtracks.

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