Standing slack-jawed Breathless as a stomped pop can Swarmed by gnats At the tender approach Of the starving fawn With a Snoopy Dog collar Tightened Around its neck / Summer thunderstorm Like a skirt that swells around your waist before it falls Slick yellow goldfinches crumbling their branches Thinking you can’t be present To the… [Read More]
Nathan Hauke
Nathan Hauke is the author of Every Living One (Horse Less Press, 2015), In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes (Publication Studio, 2013), and four chapbooks. His poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including 4Ink7: An Unction from the Holy One, American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Interim, New American Writing, Typo, and Zen Monster; they have also been anthologized in Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press, 2015) and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012). He was born and raised in rural/ small-town Michigan.