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Agreeably Justin Jannise (bio) the way the palm fronds protrude and then abruptly curl down- and inward: at once erect and less-than like a story I could tell abouta bronze man poised at a bronzepiano madness in his eyes music in his wrists fingers dangling over the rows of keys: how I lived across the street for months before I found him frozen in anticipation how, afterwards, the savage chords he was aboutto strike echoed: morning, noon: evening, night [End Page 290]

Justin Jannise is the author of How to Be Better by Being Worse (BOA Editions), which won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, Copper Nickel, Yale Review, and New Ohio Review. Recently a recipient of the Inprint Verlaine Prize in Poetry and a former Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast, Justin is pursuing his Ph.D. in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Houston.

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