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Joel Long

Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Lessons in Disappearance and Knowing Time by Light were published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in numerous periodicals, including Interim, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, and Seattle Review and anthologised in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, and I Go to the Ruined Place.

Still Life with Lazarus at the Museum

            Rembrandt’s Lazarus rises, reluctant ash from the sarcophagus while across the room a gray mouse in Abraham van Beyeren’s “Banquet Still Life” inspects a grape on a silver tray, ready to bite. Jesus works hard to accomplish the miracle, to …

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