Zachariah Claypole White – Postcards to the Angel [unmailed]

Postcards to the Angel [unmailed]             Last night someone spiked             my drink and                       [just say it]                                                 I woke up             in a hospital bed,             all these pointless             poems bleeding             from two fingers. Snow has covered and cleaned vomit from the steps; there are footprints in the ice, blood on my door.             We always return to violence,             don’t […]

Zachariah Claypole White – A Catalogue of Moments as Told to My Bedroom Window

A Catalogue of Moments as Told to My Bedroom Window I. Today, my father is a hummingbird against the screen, and we are candles crossing the distance. He is twenty-one: a prophecy of laughter counting pigeon feathers, and I—the sand, waiting his touch. Today, the surgery. Fingers swell ripe as harvest moons. His wedding ring […]