David Shumate

David Shumate is the author of three books of prose poetry, High Water Mark (2004), The Floating Bridge (2008), and Kimonos in the Closet (2013), all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. His poetry has also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry and elsewhere.  He lives in Zionsville, Indiana, and teaches at Marian University.

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    We did not have mango trees back home on the prairies.  The climate and soil conditions were not conducive to that
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    You cannot consider yourself a widow just because the full moon has gone