William DeFord

WILLIAM DEFORD {[email protected]} lives in Grand Junction, Colorado. His poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Red Rock Review, and BYU Studies.

Placenta

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 4

I picture it, a milky glass teardrop
Just large enough to fill my cupped hand.
It floats in an almost-dark cave;
It lights the cave but slightly, casting
Wan shadows, a vessel of music and logic
Unknown among us.

Dream Psalm

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 4

You wake me to the all and the every,
You breathe me to your shattering stillness,
Walk me to the brink of the dream
That jerks alert. You, the nurturing darkness