Tom Barlow

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We still believed

the bullets when they arrived

would be so slowed by our virtue

we could pluck them from the air

like grapes

Tom Barlow is an American writer of five novels, a hundred plus short stories and poetry. His work has appeared in many journals including One Art, The Ekphrastic Review, Voicemail Poetry, Hobart, Tenemos, Redivider, The New York Quarterly, The Gyroscope Review, and many more. See tombarlowauthor.com.