My first hard copies of LITANY WITH WINGS just arrived and my heart’s cracking open. It was one thing reading the proof PDFs (again and again while I worked with @andrewheiss to put the finishing touches on the collection). @BccPress It’s very much another thing to hold the finished product in my hands—seeing the poems on the page, feeling the paper that holds ~sixteen years of my work. Hear those pages whirring? Like wings…

Sneak peak no. 7 of *Litany with Wings* (@BccPress): Four takes on a poem. Take 1 (2006): @dialoguejournal publishes my first poem, "Fruit" dialoguejournal.com/articles/fruit/. It was inspired by something the dr told my then-pregnant wife when she went for a checkup after a car accident: /1 "She's like an apple in a water balloon," he said, reassuring us that our gestating daughter (our "fruit") was unharmed by the collision. I took his witness as my starting point and wove a text from his words + the sonogram + the Eden narrative. /2