publications have been in a lull for a couple months, but yesterday the independent poetry journal boats against the current brought out my series of imagistic scenes based on time in door county, wisconsin.
i was reading lots of lorine niedecker (one of my favorite poets, who grew up and lived along the river i grew up near—the rock) at the time of this retreat to the door peninsula, and the work here shows her influence.
grateful to editor mckenna themm for giving this one a home. check out the good work she’s doing on the site.
here’s a picture of the iris in question in the poem’s final scene, growing along heinz creek:
