Broken Tooth By Ace Boggess

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Broken Tooth

A dream of a broken tooth
means fear of aging, change,
or feeling powerless.

Broken tooth would be a good name
for a rock band
in the alternative genre, or maybe punk.

Broken tooth would be a good name
for a minor battle
in a war we have forgotten.

A dream of a broken tooth
could not exist when one
has a broken tooth; there is no rest.

Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, most recently Escape Envy. His writing has appeared in Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Hanging Loose, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. His seventh collection, Tell Us How to Live, is forthcoming in 2024 from Fernwood Press.

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