Roger Reeves is the author of King Me (Copper Canyon, 2013) and Best Barbarian (Norton, 2022), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Award. Dark Days (Graywolf, 2023), his first book of nonfiction, is forthcoming.
Absent bounty, anarchic and asymptotic, / Bedlam banked as beauty, captive cuckolding / Capital and its camel-faced captor, master, the / Devil is in the dove’s details
A is for almost, arriving, my father’s death. / B is for bear, which he does and does not do. / C is for care and critics and leaving them to their caskets.