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If I Owned Maracas | Don Narkevic
I would shake them after hours
while drinking old fashioneds.
I would play with The Jolly Boys
at the Club on Errol Flynn’s Island.
I would flick them at the moon
and the spreading valley mist.
I would rattle them over our dead
marriage to conjure one last kiss.
Don Narkevic. Buckhannon, WV. MFA National University. Poetry appears in The Trillium, Agape, Blue Collar Review, Dappled Things. In 2022, Main Street Rag published a novella of poetry, After the Lynching. In 2024, The Potomac Playmakers produced From Birth. In 2025, the author won the Ziolkowski Poetry Prize.
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