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Downer is a performing artist, and her music training really shows through in both of these poems. They’ve got such a soulful voice, so mellow. I can just hear the music behind the verse.

Lovely.

wound down.
I don’t know

why we settle
to the sound.

Somehow
the regular

click and chime
of passing time,

like water, turns
a water wheel

that turns a gear
that turns a stone

that turns upon
another stone

and fine
and finer in between

our dreams like grain
are ground.

(by Todd Boss)

This originally appeared in Poetry Magazine in June 2006, on page 241. I very much appreciate the permission Todd Boss has given me, when he visited, to reprint this poem. More of Todd Boss’s poems are available online.