“These men, though: they had a smell I can’t name, / and, if they wanted, could reach down to touch me / but didn’t, and disappeared when my hand / reached their door frame.” Brad Richard reads "The Men in the Dark" from his third poetry collection, Butcher's Sugar (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012).
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