My work in the Fall-Winter 2024 Akitsu Quarterly

by

John J. Dunphy

airborne

a squirrel gripped by

the hawk’s talons

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new foster home

child unloads her possessions

from a trash bag

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prison choir

every tenor

a lifer

John J. Dunphy’s poetry collections include Old Soldiers Fading Away, Zen Koanhead, Touching Each Tree, pagan rites, Bullet Cluster, Stellar Possibilities and Dark Nebulae. He is also the author of non-fiction works such as Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials: The Investigative Work of the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, 1945–1947. He owns the The Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, IL, USA