Erick Verran
Autres Loups
In oily togetherings, the opulent bluebirds
splash flight all across Roslindale’s sky,
which is its usual gray hue, unbeautiful
in a manner that is known to be historic,
bone-cold.
Missing is any good synonym
for the dog walkers and neon kayaker
on their nowhere voyages, one magnetically
yanked toward tree roots, the other swept
into the Charles’s littlest eddies, determined
by a train of wind and fine, angular rain,
the rental fee hounding them on the hour.
Erick Verran reads “Autres Loups”
Erick Verran’s is the author of the nonfiction collection Obiter Dicta (Punctum Books, 2021). His writing is forthcoming or appears in the American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, The Drift, the Harvard Review, the Oxford Review of Books, On the Seawall, the Michigan Quarterly Review, Annulet, and elsewhere. He is also an independent scholar of aesthetics and digital games. He lives in New York.