Jeffrey Overstreet’s wife, Anne, has a debut volume of poetry on the shelves at all the best bookstores near you. It’s called Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems. Here’s the poem that contains that title.

The hotel fan’s one long drawn exhalation

disturbing the heat that has settled like dust

across the room, the square-cornered chair

the unsteady spool of table. You are broken

into pieces and lie scattered …

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