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In the middle of the night, when the fruit
is scariest. I hold my hand out
and feel your nibbling. Don't worry,
my eyes are still closed. I've only
peeked that once. The cold
that is your breath—these windows
of fog. If I were outside,
I'd read your name backward again and again.
Trey Moody is from San Antonio, Texas. He earned an MFA from Texas State University and a PhD from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of the chapbook How We Remake the World, co-written with Joshua Ware, and winner of the Slope Editions Chapbook Prize.
Price: $14.95
Pages: 80
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Series: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
Publication Date:
07 January 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781936747672
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POETRY / American / General, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature
Trey Moody is from San Antonio, earned an MFA from Texas State University, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently, How We Remake the World, co-written with Joshua Ware and winner of the Slope Editions Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Washington Square.
1
We Use Spoons Mostly
What We First Said
Climate Reply
A Weather [Why a. Why not…]
The Fallacy of Perfection
A Weather [Snow falls thick…]
Like Hearing For from That
Chatter
A Weather [Land absorbs sound…]
This Forest Isn’t a Room
A Feather Protruding from the Mouth
A Weather [While waiting…]
The Seating
A Weather [Said sand molds…]
Salina, Kansas
A Weather [Summer’s scalding echo…]
Dear Ghosts,
2: Lancaster County Notebook
The Good Life
Travelogue
To, But
Attention
In Crossing
By Hand
Act of Interpretation
Only What
Spring
Between Both
Nourishment
Distance
An Explanation
That Abstraction
Perfect Potential
3
Same-Day Resolution
A Weather [Since it is raining…]
Both
Everything Is Not for Everyone
A Weather [A certain sound…]
Yes, This Is May
A Weather [Heat: winter’s memory…]
Exercise in Patience
Backyard
A Weather [Color claims consistency…]
A Note on Silence
This Hemisphere of Leaves
A Weather
Praise
A Weather
Remembering the Original
Dear—
We Use Spoons Mostly
What We First Said
Climate Reply
A Weather [Why a. Why not…]
The Fallacy of Perfection
A Weather [Snow falls thick…]
Like Hearing For from That
Chatter
A Weather [Land absorbs sound…]
This Forest Isn’t a Room
A Feather Protruding from the Mouth
A Weather [While waiting…]
The Seating
A Weather [Said sand molds…]
Salina, Kansas
A Weather [Summer’s scalding echo…]
Dear Ghosts,
2: Lancaster County Notebook
The Good Life
Travelogue
To, But
Attention
In Crossing
By Hand
Act of Interpretation
Only What
Spring
Between Both
Nourishment
Distance
An Explanation
That Abstraction
Perfect Potential
3
Same-Day Resolution
A Weather [Since it is raining…]
Both
Everything Is Not for Everyone
A Weather [A certain sound…]
Yes, This Is May
A Weather [Heat: winter’s memory…]
Exercise in Patience
Backyard
A Weather [Color claims consistency…]
A Note on Silence
This Hemisphere of Leaves
A Weather
Praise
A Weather
Remembering the Original
Dear—