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Chris Fettes

Sunburnt stranger
Buries face in hands
Staggers shadeless sidewalk
Year’s hottest day
Wandering from hospital
Nothing to say
Only left to sob

Chris Fettes teaches the College of Public Health Writing Workshop and is poetry section chief for Medicine and Meaning. His work has been published in Slant, Import Sky, Nude Bruce Review, and prior issues of Medicine and Meaning.

Posted on October 5, 2022

Filed Under: 6 – Poetry

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