Travis Nichols was born in Iowa in 1979. He is the author of two poetry collections, Iowa and See Me Improving (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), and the novel Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder, a sequence of prose vignettes that explore midwestern adolescence. Nichols lives in Chicago.

Four Poems

by Travis Nichols

First Light at Lascaux

Behind my hand is another hand.
Behind my head, another head.
Iron filings fill the hand,
sway with the movements of the head.
A mouth made of aluminum moths
moves in the mouth of the head.
Blue ink flows from the veins in the hand,
tooth wounds open in the ears of the head.
Blight hands move inside the hand,
shaded from the light behind the head.

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