blue goose road at night
cuts thru bog country
streams of leaves
flow the road
and moats dogs
aflight, all
of them. gray
light purpling
the air. vertigo
round cedar-lined
curves. watching
for deer –
there – the moon
shines over acid
water, pitcher-plant
relics, my brow.
jacob riyeff is a translator, poet, and scholar of medieval literature. his work focuses on the western contemplative tradition and the natural world. jacob teaches in the english department at marquette university and lives in milwaukee’s east village.
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