“Imagine a Town” by Barbara Sabol

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Original RuseImagine a town like Slaughterville
Oklahoma with every citizen all
three thousand some gone grand
poof some ghost towns
aren’t inhabited even by ghosts
they don’t stick around
for their own haunting
trusting the waterless wind
to bang the shutters no one
left to shudder or slide an arm
around an imaginary back
practically feel the warmth grasp
an absent hand waltzing
around a darkened parlor

–Barbara Sabol,
Original Ruse
Accents Publishing

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Barbara SabolBarbara Sabol’s poetry and prose has appeared in Public-Republic, Blood Lotus, Poets 350, the Tupelo Press Poetry Project,Tributaries, and on the Akron Art Museum’s website. She has an MFA from Spalding University. Barbara is a long-practicing speech therapist, living in northeastern Ohio with her partner and dogs.

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