When she woke from her long
sleep in a land haunted by death,
she asked, Am I still Brianna?
her voice hollow, lost in the blanket,
muffling her name, dragging the r,
stretching the a, murmuring
as though she were saying it
for the first time. She stared at her
hands, studying the map of lines
that brought her back to us
from a pale horizon of heartbeats,
and breathing, chilled by an icy sea.
is the author of fifteen published books of poetry and nonfiction. His work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, The Sewanee Review, and The Write Launch. In 2018, Finishing Line Press published his chapbook Mirrors, Myths, and Dreams; and next year they will release his triple-hybrid collection, Her Infinite Variety.
