Rick Liljegren is a former Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review and the 1998 recipient of the Dorothy M. Hood Poetry Award presented by the Creative Writing department of Arizona State University. Rick currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona and teaches English at ASU. At this very moment he is typing furiously to complete his first […]
Rick Liljegren
Rick Liljegren: This is a Poem about Death
It ends with the rain on the other side of the window; stream water folding on itself, impressionist roses swaying like trout swimming in place, the house tapping its nails against skylight. As if this were my home, instead of the warehouse with tin walls, abandoned, GODS spray-painted on the outside like a possessive answer; […]