Three of my poems appeared in the Vol. I, No. 1, Summer 2012 debut issue of the Battersea Review: “Kingsessing Avenue,” “‘The Lost Kings Uphold My Side,'” and “Routes,” the last of which appeared in my collection All of You on the Good Earth (the first two will appear in Last One Out). The issue also contains poems by Adam Kirsch, David Meltzer, Gerard Malanga, Greg Delanty, Kathleen Rooney, Robert Archambeau, and Stephen Burt, essays by Ben Mazer, Marjorie Perloff, and Todd Swift, and much more. Click here to visit and read the issue. 

My broad oaken desk is dark like a lost
King’s blade-scored, beer-soaked table at the head
Of a candled mead hall in winter hills.
My hair is a hammered golden helmet,
My shirt, a bright shower of silver mail.
I tilt the glass back. The cubes
Throw out a bronze flare and clink.
The cigarette smoke rises and trembles
From the last of a burned village.
My cats stalk the shadowed corners
Of the room like slow, muscular cougars
On the snow-conquered walls of a ruin.