Great Circle Earthworks (Newark, Oh.)
A poem by Daniel Wolff.
I fall while dancing on the eve of 9/11
A poem by Jan Worth-Nelson
Eventually Chicago
A poem by Margot Armbruster.
Sometimes it S n o w s in A p r i l
"The snow f e l l like a miffed god took bites of cumulus clouds—spat them down / from heaven, o n t o my Midwest."
Treaty of Mendota
A poem of erasure.
Fire in Steubenville
"Each time I come back home / something else has burned."
Trouble
"The jukebox at Pizza King didn’t bump any songs past / 1978 but we fed it quarters anyway"
Midwestern
"I heard the dreams of a revisionist age, / the once upon a time / of a land strong in industry."
Great Dams on the Land
"When my son rides the Switch Back Gravity Rail over coal lines in Jim Thorpe, I hope to God the mountains are His and my boy might believe in his ancestor clans."
Why is the City of Flint Allowed to Waste Away?
It’s February in Flint, Michigan and children will / make paper heart valentines."
meditations in the decline of western civilization
"this is how i ground myself. / i follow the writing on the wall."
Return (For Chicago)
"This city isn’t built on bullets / alone."