Thomas R. Smith

Biography

Thomas R. Smith is the author of three books of poems, most recently The Dark Indigo Current from Holy Cow! Press. He has also edited What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread (Thousands Press), a selection of the late Canadian poet Alden Nowlan. He writes criticism for Ruminator Review and teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.

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POETRY / Fall 2004

In the Assisted Living Cafeteria

By Thomas R. Smith

Glancing out from our corner table
across the assisted living facility’s
cafeteria, my mother-in-law
Shirley says, “Why, there are no men here!”