Bill Ayres

Bill Ayres is working in his seventh bookstore. His poems have appeared recently in Plainsongs, The Windhover, Bird’s Thumb, and the Anglican Theological Review.

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Poem | The Face On the Clock

“Once even I couldn’t tell / my left arm from my right”

By Bill Ayres

February 11, 2019

Poetry

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Poem | The Astronaut’s Body

No need for these muscles, these bones / Here, they are a burden. / I let them thin.

By Bill Ayres

December 3, 2018

Poetry

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