Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of four books of poetry, most recently This Nest, and a collection of essays on Moby-Dick, entitled A Whaler’s Dictionary. He teaches at Colorado State University.
When I became a traveler through another’s grief,
When her face became for me a kind of architecture,
I could wander the halls, I could turn
The porcelain knobs and leave my evidence, I could
Be present, sit on the bare mattress, look at the sh [...]
Your parents leave you with the roots
Of their own lives in your hand,
You who with your own life pulled their life up,
Dirt falling from the onion’s bulb
Back into dirt. Ritual in the morning light
Each generation repeats, muscle
Strong at o [...]
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