“The Peace Grant” by Ian Randall Wilson (poetry, ’02; fiction, ’16)

A poem by Ian Randall Wilson (poetry, ’02; fiction, ’16) appears in Scoundrel Time:

The Peace Grant

No singing of any
kind. All year the rooms dark.
Then a week of lights.
The owners have returned,
their daughters haunt
the balconies.
One of them looks at me

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