Christopher DeWeese

SOUL TO SQUEEZE

I’ve got a homily
In a camp outside my feelings

I bought incense
It came with intense directions

The strangers in my dreams
Stay awake when I’m not sleeping

I’m on a fishing trip
Gonna eat some breakfast

I have a deli
And I want more delis

CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE is the author of The Father of the Arrow is the Thought (Octopus Books, 2015) and The Black Forest (Octopus Books, 2012). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Granta, jubilat, and Tin House. He is an assistant professor of poetry at Wright State.