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Viaduct
Trussed and arched in metal middling, cacophony quadrille backs lost to dance, that's how I see this viaduct, connecting tissues for the living hotspot land, toot-toot trains from one side to the other like shifting allegiances, a feverish human metronome; somehow woefully intransitive, those boorish columns of steel tearing the milk right out the sky and those jitterbugs of prestressed concrete pulled forth from a dying mason's once-sturdy hand. Bio: Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Setu, Monterey Poetry Review, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.
