Ventriloquist on the Moor, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

← v6n2, Fall 2007

after Klee

fester in his ears. He wanders

in a fog that stinks with wound—

wort and wonders how long

his body will last when he lies

down in the peat. Will he

decay once for each of them

or become bones in days—

organs proving empty

but for the voices’ carrion

inside his lungs? His lips

splinter. His chest clatters.

His heart is not his own.

art mortality identity

Gibson Fay-Leblanc

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc’s poetry has appeared in AGNI Online, The New Republic , Pleiades , Tin House , and Verse Daily . Works are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner and Poetry Northwest . Fay-LeBlanc has taught writing at Columbia University, Fordham University, and the University of Southern Maine, and he is executive director of The Telling Room, a community writing program for youths in Portland, Maine.