Night Stirred A Dream Into Infinity by Nathan Spoon

at the talon           belltrace

          the tactile          abyss          wards

of rustplants          the spelled drift

malice          twisting out          falltimes

          our hourhorns

of hiccup          lusters

          ex machina          smelling with

nailleaves          with eruption

          coiling          in tonnage          and belts

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Nathan Spoon is the author of Doomsday Bunker (Éditions du Cygne, X-Peri Series, 2017) and My Name is Gretchen Merryweather (hardPressed poetry, 2017). His publications include Oxford Poetry, Mantis, Hotel Amerika, Reflections (Yale Divinity School), Spacecraftproject, From the Lighthouse, NPR’s KCRW.com, Zócalo Public Square and the anthology What Have You Lost? (HarperCollins). He is Associate Editor of X-Peri and a 2017 faculty member for seminars at the University of Pennsylvania and the ALSCW Conference.