John Brantingham, from Volume 4:1

John Brantingham's latest collections include Dual Impressions: Poetic Conversations about Art and The Green of Sunset.  He is currently a professor of English and creative writing at Mt. San Antonio College, in Walnut, California.  Brantingham had two poems — "Instructions for Swimming Before the Rain" and "Koi Pond, Norton Simon Museum of Art" — published in Volume 4:1.  Below is an excerpt from the latter:

          Lose yourself in the dream of hiding

          behind that statue for an hour,

          the one of the cougar with his elongated back,

          energy poised for the kill.
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