
07/21/2024
"Jesus stumbled and reached
to brace himself against me, is how
I explain the hole in my chest,
an unexpected concavity where the wish
bone turns in on itself to keep out the world
rather than hold my heart inside,
the pocket sculpted just deep enough
to fit someone's desperately holy hand
as they passed along the Sad Way..."
I'm so happy my long poem Pectus Excavatum was just published in California Quartely. The journal is special to me since they also accepted the first poem I ever sent out in 1984. I promised to send a new one in 2064.