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.
ISSUE ONE features fiction by Porochista Khakpour, Michael Martone, Reginald McKnight, and David James Poissant; nonfiction by David Stuart MacLean and Josip Novakovich; film writing by J.M. Tyree; and poetry by Rae Armantrout, Rick Barot, Jericho Brown, Cynthia Cruz, Dorothea Lasky, Shane McCrae, Robyn Schiff, and Wendy Xu; and translations of Yi Lei by Changtai Bi and Tracy K. Smith.