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Somebody the Same as You

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Alt-text: A 1950s postcard of tourists on a boat. They are seated, bent over, peering down through the boat’s glass bottom. Instead of ocean life below, they watch souls writhing in Hell or some sort of purgatorial state. Across the top of the postcard is the typewritten poetic text: “Somebody the same as you / tempted the beast with secrets.”

Brian Barker is a poet and artist from Denver, Colorado. His collages have been selected for the National Collage Society’s juried show three times and have been featured in Kolaj, Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Jet Fuel Review, andVisible Binary. He is the author of three books of poetry—Vanishing Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels—and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, where he is a poetry editor of Copper Nickel.
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