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Damien Uriah
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Ceremony

A boy uses a stick

to dig a narrow hole

in the loam beneath cedars

breaking the thread-like white of mycelium

which reactivates

around the body of a squirrel

he found dead on the road

far from home

in the hush of rain.




Damien Uriah grew up on the Oklahoma side of the Ozark mountains. He currently lives in Spokane, WA where he writes and teaches. In addition to being a poet, Damien is a stone-mason, gardener, and musician. His poems are published or forthcoming in The Cimarron Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Heron Tree, About Place Journal, The Swamp, and The Pacific Northwest Inlander, as well as others.  He received his MFA from Eastern Washington University.
 



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