Thomas Simmons

Thomas Simmons is a lawyer, a tenured professor at the University of South Dakota School of Law, and a lifelong South Dakotan. His scholarship and teaching focuses on trusts and estates. His poems have been published (or are forthcoming) in Pasque Petals, El Portal, Corvus Review, Nebo, North Dakota Quarterly, Nine Muses, Thirteen Mina Birds, Amethyst Review, and The Showbear Family Circus.

“The Red French Balloon Proposal,” “Her Tear Ducts Were Fuel Cells” and “exspiro”

In 1979 or so
Soviet-French
interplanetary
cooperation
(which boasted,
inter alia,
French scientific
tackle lugged
to Mars by the
USSR in 1971)
nearly hit
a new high
with an idea;
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