My poem, Reunion, is up at the Red Eft Review. Here is the poem:
Reunion by Steve Deutsch
Mom and Dad
loved lupine,
but couldn’t control it.
Year after year, they’d plant
the finest seeds
in the finest soil
but it bloomed where it would.
My brother left
home the day
after his sixteenth birthday.
I hear from him now
and again—chicken scratch
on the back of a postcard
or a long-distance call
from some place
in the California desert
where lupines are native.
Perhaps he is harvesting
some to bring home—
a handsome gift
for a nurturing couple.
The lupines come up
whenever they will
wherever they will
and my brother
just called
from someplace new.
In a better world the lupine
Would grow where they plant it
and my brother would walk in the door.
Stevie's Law 
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Thanks Sarah
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Sweetly sad – congrats- a god magazine
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Thanks Mary
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aw, if only you could make it so. bittersweet poem and congrats to you
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thank Beth
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Thanks Timmie
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