Maureen Clark
Articles
Breach Birth: Aug. 20, 1891
He is born breach, meaning gap.
From the beginning
he was negative space
a blue cast shadow,
Utah Territory, 1893
A washed cup,
folded socks,
three unworn shirts
with no scent of him.
Smooth bedsheets,
dry towels.
Delineation
October snow brings the hunters
down from the mountains
without their kill. Sometimes
it happens this way. Sumac and oak