Hymn to St. Teilo

BY G.C. Waldrep

moisten the rivet
with the water of your left hand

think on the timed event

the bent knee cavitates
a ministry, a sluice, a (s)laughter

 

Biography

G.C. WALDREP‘s most recent collection is Archicembalo (Tupelo Press, 2009), which won the Dorset Prize. His next, in collaboration with John Gallaher, is Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (forthcoming from BOA Editions in April 2011). His poems have appeared recently in the The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Harper’s, The Nation, and other journals. He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Bucknell University.

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