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William E. Dudley


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pass out with a ghost doing
domestic chores

getting into a marriage behind
ancient mystery

that becomes six hangers in
an empty closet and why

eating someone's soul at a moonlit
casserole party

is flying through the blue harp
of an Islamic attic

sipping gin on a train just outside
a captive dream


William E. Dudley has had poetry published in Whetstone, Concho River Review and Painted Bride Quarterly, as well as other journals in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. He has recently studied with Norman Dubie. For the past six years he's been running writing workshops in libraries in and around Phoenix, Arizona.