Poetry – Issue 7 | November 2009
Any Ghost Town West of Omaha
by Jeffrey Alfier
The Post Office was last to go
when the last whore refused her mail,
the town and her legend unmade.
When the shallow oilfield played out,
bankers and clerks gazed at the clock
fixed above the rail station arch.
Cholera, sandstone grave markers.
Love was wasted on bitterness,
the price paid for too long a wait.
About the author
Jeffrey Alfier lives in Tucson, Arizona. His recent and forthcoming publication credits include New Madrid, Rattle, and Silk Road. He is co-editor of the San Pedro River Review.
Read our current issue, Issue 7 | November 2009:
Poetry
Berlin by Sy Margaret Baldwin
Two Poems by Sean Edgley
After Your Funeral I Set Out to Find You in Different Time Zones by Jennifer Faylor
Painter by Ricky Garni
Other Than by Dana Guthrie Martin
Two poems by Timothy Kercher
Five Views of Guanajuato: A Mythology by Athena Kildegaard
Two poems by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Goya by Trent Nutting
The Changing of the Flowers by Jennifer Saunders
Two poems by Ken Turner
Postcard prose
Buttons by Jennifer Faylor
The Enemy Tree by Kirby Wright
Escape on the Canal by Addie Zierman
