February 2022
Bio Note: A few years ago I spent some time with friends staying in a rented home in Carmel-By-The-Sea, and while there had the opportunity to visit Robinson Jeffer's Tor House. After I had returned home, the image of that stone structure remained until I wrote something as stark as the structure itself, and the person who built it. It will appear in a new collection, Nightshades, scheduled for release this spring and will feature cover copy by Elana Wolff, Marilyn Taylor and Dennis Barone. It will be the fifth full-length collection, and I'm becoming a bit uncomfortable with the idea of possibly writing too much, but somehow, due to factors I do not completely understand, it all seems (wonderfully and/or regrettably) necessary.
Photo credit: Michael Gessner
after a visit to Tor House Acrimony is a crow squawking over an empty stone house, circling & circling all day long, & tho’ it’s been fed, its body strong, & its flight made easy by complaint thermals, & by every account, it is complete, it continues to circle & squawk over an empty stone house.
Originally published in Innisfree
©2022 Michael Gessner
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