Chris Dombrowski’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Orion, and others. His chapbook, Fragments with Dusk in Them, was published by Punctilious Press in 2008, and his first full-length collection, By Cold Water, was published by Wayne State University Press in 2009. He has taught creative writing at the University of Montana and Interlochen […]
Here comes dawn and nothing rosey about her fingers, nothing to suggest gender whatsoever—stove-flame blue and some hand must’ve turned the burner on: the little tongues licking, gradually, the teapot of us aboil, cooking off a giardia of stars, the dregs of our night- mares. Who will place his fingers in the nailmarks, come near […]
We were taught to count kestrels on wires like coins in our pockets. Whole years we recalled by color: that torch-year, tanager, fox, sandstone, sage. Droughts revealed the river’s former ways, oars wedged between boulders, a derailed boxcar, conductor’s leather cap. A recluse fell in love with certain shadows spilled across […]
The river, as they say, is running off. To where, with what? To the last place current would carry a body if a body lay itself beside slipping banks, knelt even, and asked to be moved. Not the placid tour you might envision: having never seen mill pulp […]
White whorls, three flags of trillium splash up from charred ground. A Ponderosa’s boiled sap. Sometimes even in the spring even after the long snows you can find a trunk still smoldering. Puckett, you are the worst goddamn mushroom hunter I ever saw. Like some drive-by mushroom hunter. Look: Slug always finds his […]
In the one world you called twin tired of being misidentified how swiftly you became the spider mending each day its wind-rent web and not the box-elder beetle you had been grasshopper still tearing at the ties intricate void bright bardo room she I call her hangs like a home light beneath the eaves and […]
Chris Dombrowski, author of the chapbook, Fragments with Dusk in Them, talks about a poem he wishes he’d written.
Chris Dombrowski, author of the chapbook, Fragments with Dusk in Them, talks about the genesis of his poem Elegy with Fall’s Last Filaments.