Gourlaw bone-plaque:
as cerement: the body
cindered, complete
in its dregs & gases:
flat, incised: or,
cambered slightly,
tortoiseshell, scapula:
oblique rhetoric:
takes what place
of ambience, we are
still breathing:
it is not necessary
to mime the immersion:
such larger bodies:
ambulant shrines,
the little brightnesses:
spiracle, fundament:
bloodfane, firstfruit,
“angry day-son” &
we, the occasional men:
G.C. Waldrep’s most recent collections are Archicembalo (Tupelo Press, 2009), which won the
Dorset Prize, and Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, 2011), in collaboration
with John Gallaher. He 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.
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