Sundin Richards is the author of The Hurricane Lamp (Otis Nebula, 2010). His work has appeared in many journals, including Colorado Review, Interim, Volt, Zone, Sugar House Review, Thrush Poetry Journal and Western Humanities Review, where he won the Utah Writer’s Competition for Poetry. He has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is Poetry Editor for Jumping Blue Gods. He lives in Salt Lake City.
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Jungfrau
Ply me
there
Caught by
the eye
Of a
dare
The marker
says
Mile One
for a change
I like to keep
a little fire
In my
Keep your
powder
Dry you
sexy
Little
monster
The Forever
It’s been a
wet century
so far
A blessing
in reverse
I do what I want
with what I see
The smell of
welding is the
smell of my family
Lapsarian
at least
Take this thirst
and make a slave
of it
You’ve gone
to the agora
And today I
take a train
to the west
Hunting in Heaven
Rats in the
fucking sun
Thus this
thus this
The grass
stays green
Under snow
under ice
Out is
a code
For
wonder
And I let
you into
My escape
plan
And was
brutal in
My Ithika
thinking
Never to
be lost
Dromenon
dromenon
Pulsate beyond
funereal fact
I love my
motor system
As a bad
pet
In a
bag
The sun stays
in the middle
Even in park
ing lots
There’s no
dying
But I have
made flight
From that
pasture
Where your
light offends
The end of
the world