Early morning claymation of birds clogging the backyard, low gargle of mourning dove– Trees are vaults to fit into an easy second, they pass us in swells of untightening. Touch for us, wandering for them: an eye unclutches. Inside the vacant TV screen an arm raises against– How it turns into a rip before it […]
Daneen Wardrop
Daneen Wardrop: Gray Ghost
At Gray Ghost, West Point, I’m shut upstairs where Maggie Lunty locks me in her bedroom with her, says she’ll never allow me to leave, will keep me there beyond Christmas, beyond when we go to fourth grade, when she gets married. She fields me when I lean toward the door, blocks me when I […]
Daneen Wardrop: Descending to the Airstrip
Descending to the airstrip on post, the Colonel flies the fighter low enough to rattle desktops in the school below, signals to his daughter in the classroom. She knows it’s hi, see you at home, spare ribs for dinner, tilt of wings to clatter pencils and chalk, teacher trying to explain continents […]
Daneen Wardrop
Daneen Wardrop is the author of a book of poetry, The Odds of Being, and has received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award, the Bentley Prize for Poetry from Seattle Review, and the Gerald Cable Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, AGNI, […]