His poetry collection, Black Aperture, was selected by Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the 2012 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets... More >
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My foreshadow stretches
out in front of me.
We stand on the soles
of each other's feet.
I am a field
and there's a man
standing in the middle
of me saying,
God is the sky pinning
me to my body.
I am a man
and there is a field
under me saying,
A dead man makes
love to the earth
by just lying there.