“Sometimes I feel him / pushing a little bit on my lower back with a palm / made of ghost orchids and literal wind.” Matthew Zapruder reads from his poetry collection Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) for the Holloway Series in Poetry in 2010.
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