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Chameleon Culture
Richard Eric Johnson

-1975-

umbilical warm
breathless caress

brief peace
long journey

circulating
soiled blood

broken water
boat dream

next life
refugee

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Richard “Eric” Johnson is a graduate of Indiana University and holds a B.A. in Germanic Languages and an M.S. in Education. Eric has five previously published volumes of poetry: Of Museums, Monsoons, and Mausoleums (1998), Schemes of Consciousness (2003), Memoir Poetic of a Naked Cop (2013), Watching Angels Dance by Candlelight (2019), and Free Air Berlin: Of A Wall And A Walnut Tree (2022). Eric served in Viet Nam and West Berlin with the U.S. Army before beginning a career in law enforcement as a road patrol officer with the Marion County Sheriff’s Department in Indianapolis. After retiring, Eric traveled overseas with his wife who was likewise stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army. They now happily reside in Arlington, Virginia.

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