sphere in the hand the lessons will be done
in hose-down thunder-in-a-barn
bare-ass naked Lutheran time inner silence
pounding glyphs crushing pearls to better fit
the envelopes I shall petition Lord with
what is there left of the anyway, anyway?
plutonium cruelty mesa shimmers all over the hands
if winter there, then body vanquished
mound of melted snow fallen samurai if spring,
then just another throat pregnant with starlings
Dennis Hinrichsen’s most recent work is dementia lyrics from Green Linden Press. He has new poems appearing in Anti-Heroin Chic, ballast, Bombay Gin Literary Review, Handwritten & Co., Rawhead and The Shore. He lives in Lansing, Michigan where he offers workshops and does freelance editing.