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Posted by Wes Houp on October 24, 2022 0 Comments

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By Wesley Houp

When it comes to pressure
and time, this place
is diamond.
I’ve lived most of
my allotment between
limestone ledges.

Grown some killer dope
where the railroad
ground through.

Pulled out
a cephalopod
as long as my arm.

Plowed up my
father’s wallet
ten years after he’d
plowed it under.
One decrepit sawbuck.
A driver’s license.

One end of my time
trifolding back to the other.

Wes Houp

Wes Houp is a native of High Bridge, Kentucky. He currently lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where he is a maintenance technician at Cedars of Lebanon State Park. You can stream his first album, "Person Place or String," on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4LECfp0FNh4M97cu1Vesww

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