"It was this then, the mystery of man seizing from the land, and the land seizing back, year after year, that drew Douglas, knowing the towns never really won, they only existed in calm peril..." --Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Ben Debus is a graduate of Indiana University's MFA program. His poems have appeared most recently in Spoon River Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, and Lumina. He lives near Detroit with his wife, poet Cate Whetzel, and teaches at a local university.