Hooke, Jared Houze, and Jim Crosby for reading the manuscript in its early stages. I thank Greg Garrett for his experience and advice. I thank Peter Cunningham and Ara Fitzgerald for both listening and hearing. I thank Peter also for his photograph on the cover. Finally, I thank Elizabeth Struthers Malbon who helped to shape this collection by her close reading and perceptive editorial suggestions.
Begin
Mark 1:1–15
What Shall I Cry?
Way before I reached that turning point
of not knowing what to cry
I had to ask for years and years,
shall I?
Throw myself off
Fall a shooting star
streaked naked light
flesh a phrase
in the night, visible,
back to dark.
Can I?
Dare with trembling ink
to spill to mark to soil
blank white wilderness
erase the possibility
for anything else to grow
there but that. But you.
Indelible.
Open my lips make me a mouth
inhale air prepare
wait at the edge
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