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  • An accomplished classical guitarist, lover of all things Joan of Arc and late night scholar of Henry David Thoreau, poet Troy Casa, has lived in wonderfully strange places like Reno, Nevada, Gahanna, Ohio and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, all the while, poem writing. Currently, he lives with his partner "George" and their two sons, Keats & Kincaide, in Merrimack, New Hampshire. :
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  • The Stark Realities that Surround Texas, printed at Wordrunner Chapbooks in Petaluma, California, is available through the author. Please send check or money order for $10 [includes S&H] to: Troy Casa, 5 Orchard Hills Parkway, Bangor, ME. 04401.:
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I am pleased to introduce The Stark Realities that Surround Texas, a collection of sixteen new poems, published at Wordrunner Chapbooks in Petaluma, California. You’ll find Caligula, Moses, Sharon Olds, Keats and the City of God, all played a significant role in its creation.

Partisan Sea

Our bed is crowded,
animals burrow between the sheets
and I find myself charging them
with my grief-stricken dreamspeak.

You wake to neither of our calls for help.

At times,
I wake and wish the bar was just
three blocks closer and
last call hadn’t just passed.
For I know I could find her there.
Naked skin milky white.
One ripe red apple in a basket.
Slaying a goddess
to your careless sighs.

Hell, me and the animals might
meet up with Noah
and talk about building a boat
for all these critters
I’ve been carrying around.
But I’m none too certain on what we’d feed.
Although I am sure the water on which we’d sail
is the same damn blackness
you yourself bathe in at night
with Poseidon or some such semblance-

call him what you will.

I am cuttin the heads off these beasts
one by one
red red in the sea.

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  • "Casa's work has continued to impress me with its ability to weave together disjointed images and symbols, creating a cohesive and complex tapestry of emotions. The emotional space of the first line becomes an entryway with an unknown destination. It is his unpredictability with imagery that keeps me interested." --Alissa Hall: