Brad Johnson<\/strong><\/p> \/\/\/ Waking Brad Johnson In the parking lot, a wake of turkey vultures picks at the raccoon carcass\u2019s skin with pointed beaks. The brightest section of sidewalk is the square beside the stairwell where the suicide landed, where the school hired a power washing crew to clean the stain instead of funding a memorial. Rain falls. … <\/p>\n
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In the parking lot, a wake of turkey vultures picks
\nat the raccoon carcass\u2019s skin with pointed beaks.
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\nThe brightest section of sidewalk is the square
\nbeside the stairwell where the suicide landed, where
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\nthe school hired a power washing crew to clean
\nthe stain instead of funding a memorial. Rain
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\nfalls. A single engine plane takes off behind the fence.
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Brad Johnson\u2019s full-length poetry collection The Happiness Theory<\/em> (Main Street, 2013) is available at bit.ly\/BradJohnsonBooks<\/a>. Work of his has also been published by Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review<\/em>, J Journal<\/em>, New Madrid<\/em>, Meridian<\/em>, Poet Lore<\/a><\/em>, Salamander<\/em>, Southern Indiana Review<\/em>, Tampa Review<\/em>, Tar River Poetry,<\/em> and others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/files\/2020\/06\/42tan.png\")
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