Alverno
By Poetry Issue 122
It’s enormous, / my unknowing.
Read MoreMy Father at Love Feast, Dallas County, Iowa, 1949
By Poetry Issue 122
The man with the white beard remembers / the body
Read MoreAs an Aside on Ice
By Poetry Issue 122
In the end it’s always bondage that drives you / into the quick of clarity,
Read MoreDrift
By Poetry Issue 122
In direction as well as magnitude, a minke whale surfaces
Read MoreEpiphany Song
By Poetry Issue 122
Insight, never a stranger,
appeared (as love does)
suddenly naked
beside you.
unfinished sonnets 4G—I meant to make you more
By Poetry Issue 122
my own fog
belt/belly,
short of room
to fit both
my father’s house
By Poetry Issue 122
morning air on my face like cold water
Read MoreRaising Children God’s Way
By Poetry Issue 122
He folds me / over his knee
Read MoreLegend has it
By Poetry Issue 122
shortly after i was born my father took me to visit his father’s grave he carried my body to the top of a hill where his father was buried this story has become a family…
Read MorePrayer for Opening
By Poetry Issue 122
Lord, it is dark in here.
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