Gabriel Fried
PARENTING TRIOLET
The little god has grown, a little god
no longer. Will he answer our prayers
now that he’s lifted from our fog
a little? God, he’s grown. A little god,
a little storm. A wolf among the dogs.
Something we hunt or run from—up the stairs.
The little god has grown, alit, dislodged.
No longer will he answer our prayers.
GABRIEL FRIED is the author of two collections of poetry, The Children Are Reading (Four Way, 2017) and Making the New Lamb Take (Four Way, 2007). He edits poetry for Persea Books and directs the creative writing program at the University of Missouri.
ISSUE THIRTEEN features poetry by Luci Arbus-Scandiffio, Rick Barot, Stephanie Burt, Lauren Camp, Laura Cronk, William Virgil Davis, Chelsea Dingman, Erica Ehrenberg, Robert Fernandez, Gabriel Fried, Tracy Fuad, David Gorin, Jennifer Hasegawa, Stefania Heim, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Ish Klein, Wayne Koestenbaum, Christopher Kondrich, Keetje Kuipers, Anna Leahy, Alessandra Lynch, Alicia Mountain, Allan Peterson, Iain Haley Pollock, Adrienne Raphel, Emily Rosko, Lauren Shapiro, Adrienne Su, Cole Swensen, Tom Thompson, Anne Waldman, G.C. Waldrep, and Stella Wong; fiction by Rachel Lyon and Benjamin Niespodziany; nonfiction by Angela Ball and Joanna Luloff; a film essay by Gustavo Pérez Firmat; and Anne Waldman in conversation with Sandra Simonds.