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Justin Hunt

JUSTIN HUNT grew up in rural Kansas and lives in Charlotte. Fluent in German and Spanish, he has won several awards, including 1^st place in the Live Canon International Poetry (U.K.) and Porter Fleming Literary competitions, 2^nd place in the River Styx and Strokestown (Ireland) contests, and commendations from such journals and organizations as New Ohio Review, New Letters, and Robinson Jeffers Tor House. Hunt’s work appears or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Five Points, North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, Four Way Review, Harpur Palate, Arts & Letters, American Literary Review, Terrain.org, The Journal and Cloudbank, among others. www.justinhunt.online.

By Justin Hunt

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by Justin Hunt

I lie awake near dawn, tumbling through time, trying to order my years and snag from each a fragment. The Christmas Ash died. The Thanksgiving I was home to help my mother sort her life— and look for myself in flatland grays and browns, the plowed ground of our quarter on Slate Creek. And the

Summer 2024

If I Could Trace Again the Honed, Flat-End Blade

by Justin Hunt

of my pickaxe, the arc it formed at the crossing you and I were sent to fix—the road cratered on both sides of the tracks, wallowed out by trucks loaded with wheat— if I could follow my pick’s shadow slicing toward your shadow— dark and wild, gathering weight and speed in the bright June air—and

Summer 2021

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