Poem of the Week

Jane Miller’s poetry volumes include Midnights, a collaboration with the artist Beverly Pepper; A Palace of Pearls; and Thunderbird (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a book-length collection of short poems. On the faculty of the creative writing program at the University of Arizona, she lives in Tucson and is at work on Seven Mediterraneans, a fanciful memoir.

& Darkness Moves In

by Jane Miller

It’s a dog’s life isn’t it?

the dead cowards my parents
on a tear through the goddamn beleaguered fields
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