PROSE POETRY

NATHANIEL LACHENMEYER

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ANNIVERSARY

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Our frozen lexicon has finally iced this lake completely over—except here, where our bodies keep the rough edges at bay. But for how long? We are getting older and the temperature keeps dropping.
 
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Metaphor is not the same as truth. You complain about the words I use and the things I say, my “clichés,” but love is a choice. You chose to once, you can again—and if you don’t, tell me, which of us will miss this body of water more?

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​Nathaniel Lachenmeyer is an award-winning disabled author of books for children and adults. His first book, The Outsider, which takes as its subject his late father's struggles with schizophrenia and homelessness, was published by Broadway Books. Nathaniel has forthcoming/recently published poems, stories and essays with X-R-A-Y, North Dakota Quarterly, Citron Review, DIAGRAM, and others. Nathaniel lives outside Atlanta with his family. www.nathaniellachenmeyer.com/.

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