Song for a Severed Head

Michael Lavers is the author of the poetry collection After Earth (University of Tampa Press, 2019). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares , AGNI , Southwest Review , and The Georgia Review , among others. He is the recipient of the 2021 Moth Poetry Prize, the 2020 Bridport Poetry Prize, and the 2018 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. He is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. Photo by Claire Åkebrand