David Dodd Lee

David Dodd Lee is the author of ten books of poetry, including one chapbook and two books of Ashbery erasure poems. As well, recent fiction has appeared in New World Writing, Willow Springs, and What are Birds? He is Editor of The Glacier and EIC of 42 Miles Press and Associate Professor of English at Indiana University South Bend. His book of collages and erasures, Unlucky Animals, is forthcoming in 2023. His visual art has appeared in three one-person exhibitions since 2014, and in many group shows.

“The Semina of All Things Have a Moist Nature”

(Aristotle) It seems to be true—as Thales put it—                                                                        Everything is made of waterincluding my bathroom                                                which just flooded.My mirror’s                        layers now include buckets.Fundamentally water                                        is what                                                           freezes                                                                        in my driveway                                        or falls                                                           from yon sky,already solidified.                                  There is no God                                                                  waiting in my shedto hand me a new snow shovel                                                           (my last one was stolen).                                                           I do dream my way                                                                                                back to Lake Michigan                                                sometimes, the ponds in the dunes                                                above which float nighthawks                                                                                                        in… Read more →