the child-snow (2) by G.C. Waldrep


 

the child-snow
listens, (enclaved)
 
ungirds its
mission posture
 
fever-dream
of anemone, radio
fosse/foundry
 
the vanquished epic
shines faintly
(within its lore)
 
settlement
as a marked deck
 
beneath its optic
shallow-
glassed, clef-choir
 
each petal’s
measured skein
 
knows youth’s
blue-boned Arctic
 
the soul’s coign
inscribes
as body (intaglio)
 
slew & splay
(I) -will-not-touch

 
 
 

G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are a long poem, Testament (BOA Editions, 2015), and a chapbook, Susquehanna (Omnidawn, 2013). With Joshua Corey he edited The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta, 2012). Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pa., where he teaches at Bucknell University, edits the journal West Branch, and serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.