Welcome to “Poetry at The Arts Fuse.” A new poem every Thursday.

 

AFTER H.D. AND MEAT LOAF

 

if not autumn

                        winter

if not winter

                       spring

if not spring

                      then summer

if not summer

                          falls

a sapphic

                 dogwood

blossom

                enpinkens thee

another curly breath

                 masquerading

in the poem’s

                          big-sky gloom

i offer my throat

                               to the wolf

& tell the moon

            i sd

                             i’m sorry

 

Andrew K. Peterson is an editor and author of six poetry books, most recently Secret Equinox/Scorpio Journal (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2023). A chapbook The Big Game Is Every Night was mailed to the White House in 2017 alongside other publications from Moria Books’ Locofo Chaps as collective protest. Another chapbook bonjour Meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile) was part of an exhibition on poets’ maps at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. His poetry has also appeared as part of The Earth Archive exhibition at RISD Museum in Providence. A co-founder/editor of the online lit journal summer stock, he received an MFA from Naropa University’s Kerouac School. He lives in Boston.

Note: Hey poets! We seek submissions of excellent poetry from across the length and breadth of contemporary poetics. See submission guidelines here. The arbiter of the feature is the magazine’s poetry editor, John Mulrooney.

— Arts Fuse editor Bill Marx