Buck Downs, 2019. Photo by Steven Phillips
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More Special Music
looking in my face
at the shaving glass
a glass of air
I work by feel
a dozen souls
have died
in this body—
reincarnation
running in reverse—
the great glam drone
of heart & head
beating together—
that’s my jam—
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A native of Jones County, Miss., Buck Downs works as a publishing consultant and writing coach for corporate clients, technology developers, and authors who need individual attention. In 2017, Furniture Press Books of Baltimore published a selected poems, Unintended Empire. His most recent book of poetry is Not Right, Now! (Buck Downs Dot Com). For thirty years he has distributed his poems as a series of postcards and other author-published ephemera. (Click here for Buck Downs on writing.)
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