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Shane McCrae is the author of Mule, Blood, and Forgiveness Forgiveness (forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press), and his poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Fence, Pleiades, LIT and elsewhere. He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award and a fellowship from the NEA, and teaches at Oberlin College and in the brief-residency MFA program at Spalding University.
Nothing fits properly in this
space, Little Sleeve.
Are you watching? The way I
am crawling across
the walls of every room of the
house like a wet
near-dead thing. Like the sad
sack that I am.
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