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The drag of household
always feels “sticky”
as in being stuck.
Family is a feeling
to peel off, as
demonstrated
in European film
when they introduce
the children early,
then drop them
to get on with
the real story
because, unlike
the pups whelped
by Disney America,
they are not the point.
Harrison Fisher received his M.A. from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University and a Doctor of Arts from SUNY-Albany. He held an NEA fellowship in poetry in 1978. From 1980-82, he edited and published the photocopied visual arts/poetry zine Bingo Chow. He has appeared in 250 magazines and has published twelve collections of poems since 1977, most recently Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real. He is retired from public service and lives in upstate New York.
