Olive trees rattle.
Sea-wind rips barks from dogs’ throats
Bones shiver come dawn.

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Raised beside creeks and cornfields not far from Chicago, Ed Ruzicka now lives with his wife, Renee, and their doddering bulldog, Tucker, in Baton Rouge. Ed’s second full length volume, My Life in Cars, is set for release in October. Ed’s poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Rattle, Canary and the New Millennium Review as well as many other literary journals and anthologies.