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Jack
Shuler was
born and raised in Orangeburg, South
Carolina where he ate his share of Earl Duke's barbecue. He's in the MFA
poetry program at Brooklyn College and has had his poems published in
various
locales including Brooklyn Review, S.P.A.W.N., and BigCityLit.com.
He has
also had several essays concerning contemporary poetics published in The
South Carolina Review.
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New
Theory on the Populating of America
Jack
Shuler
Storm clouds clamp down as dozens of fur-
adorned bodies flounder across the strait.
A boy slips and is yanked up by a scolding
mother. Glacier sighs toward the land
of the conspicuous bison. Once we pondered
a steady peopling and now there is this race-
a frantic pod of newcomers, denizens
of an empty world. In the morning,
20 millenia beyond, I shower and suit up,
careful of ice as I run to the train.
© 2001 by Jack Shuler
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Volume
II Issue I