his world one of water and rust,
straddling
barges at winches working unseen like windings
of a clock twenty days on.
Twenty days off he dreams of currents,
knowing only two directions:
upstream and downstream.
By Robert E. Petras
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Robert E. Petras is a graduate of West Liberty University and a resident of Toronto, Ohio. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in more than 70 publications,
most recently in Eunoia Review, Midwest Literary Magazine, Beatnik and State of Imagination.
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