Andrew Riutta
A.A. meeting
“You don’t have to believe in God,
just a higher power.”
So I sip black coffee and stare
out the window . . .
Only those weeds that are tallest
are bent by the wind.
folded in prayer
my hands make
one big fist
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Andrew Riutta was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He is a recent recipient of the William J. Shaw memorial prize for poetry, and in 2007, his first full-length poetry collection, Cigarette Butts and Lilacs, was published by Modern English Tanka Press. Along with H. Gene Murtha, he is co-editor of the new short poetry webzine, “Haikosis” http://haikosis.webnode.com/ Both he and his nine-year-old daughter, Issabella, enjoy eating pancakes and walking in cemeteries.
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