James Galvin is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Everything We Always Knew Was True and As Is, as well as the acclaimed prose meditation The Meadow and a novel, Fencing the Sky. Galvin lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he works as a rancher, and in Iowa City, where he is a faculty member of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Photograph by Kirk S. Murray.

Americanathon

by James Galvin

Waiting for the new ice age to come along
Like a dawdling child from a previous eon,
Waiting for the homeless man to go on home
With his tired cardboard sign that says “anything helps,”

People on couch
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