Derek Graf's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Portland Review, The Boiler Journal, Radar Poetry, Revolution House, Noctua Review, and DIALOGIST, among other journals. In 2014 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and ELJ Publications will publish his chapbook What the Dying Man Asked Me in the summer of 2015.
What should I say? Vast trains over brief miles and tomorrow isn’t even here yet: is everyone pulling everyone through unseen hours as the moon watches? No— the moon hears us like pieces of doubtful music. I turn the light back on and ask are you asleep now. Are you asleep now? This is the hour that curves out of… Read more →
would be my body and its only sound, though its only sound hums incomplete, the way messages between twins become messages the dead write with their tongues. Pollux, your voice is not my voice— my voice is a slow silence crawling from earth back to earth, where the rain is just a parable, but even as children we refused the… Read more →