Byron Russell is a poet and acupuncturist. He was born in Mississippi and earned degrees from the Omeiji College of Oriental Medicine in San Francisco and from the University of Chicago. A black belt in karate, Russell lives in Oakland, California.

The Phone Rings

by Byron Russell

On her sixty-second birthday Marge
Olson got a call, not a gift:
her husband died
logging accident
they said
she said
thank you
for the call

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