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Poetry · Volume 19, Number 2

Renault / Paris / 1935

G.C. Waldrep

how many monuments

must I suckle, Father—

I work my house into the ground-

socket, tone by tone—

its bowstring glistens in the draught—

I will live another year, perhaps—

indecently—

locked in a single breast—

as every night is indecent

but guards the bowman’s right arm

while he digs & tastes, digs

&—invariably—tastes—

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G.C. Waldrep

G.C. Waldrep’s newest books are the long poem, Testament (BOA Editions, 2015), and the chapbook, Susquehanna (Omnidawn, 2013). He co-edited The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012) with poet Joshua Corey. His poems have appeared in Poetry , New England Review , Ploughshares , and elsewhere. He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania., where he teaches at Bucknell University, edits the journal West Branch, and serves as an Editor at Large for The Kenyon Review.