April 13, 2011: Graves We Filled Before the Fire, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Graves We Filled Before the Fire
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Some lose children in lonelier ways:
tetanus, hard falls, stubborn fevers
that soak the bedclothes five nights running.
Our two boys went out to skate, broke
through the ice like battleships, came back
to us in canvas bags: curled
fossils held fast in ancient stone,
four hands reaching. Then two
sad beds wide enough for planting
wheat or summer-squash but filled
with boys, a barren crop. Our lives
stripped clean as oxen bones.
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2010: On Being Asked To Write A Poem Against The War In Vietnam, Hayden Carruth
2009: The Bear-Boy of Lithuania, Amy Gerstler
2008: Today’s News, David Tucker
2007: All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann, Leonard Cohen
2006: Gamin, Frank O’Hara
2006: [this is what you love: more people. you remember], D.A. Powell
