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Gary Charles Wilkens

Gary Charles Wilkens teaches composition at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. His poems have appeared in print and online journals including The Texas Review, The Anemone Sidecar, The Adirondack Review, The Cortland Review, Hinge, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Snakeskin, Pemmican, Underground Window, and Prairie Poetry. 

Lady Ota

What I could not give for
your good name nor sell
for your delicate jade
your hands took from
my tangled hair.

Water drips from a hanging
plum bruised by your
quick hands.

In the dim mornings
I feel in the sheets
the touch
of hands long gone.

The salt taste
of my lips remains
from the last night
I believed the promises
of your hands.

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