What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes

serves as an associate editor for the DMQ Review

BA in literature at Brown University, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Minnesota.

“Echo” was written while reading a collection of Paul Celan poems, including and especially the well-known poem “Death Fugue,” as translated by Michael Hamburger.

Reader, you are here, too, keeping me company. Thank you.

And Laurion, for so much and much.

Grateful acknowledgement to the editors of the literary journals that first published my work: Switched on Gutenberg, DMQ Review, Cha, Cant, DIAGRAM, and Blackbird.

Much of this work was written with the support of the MFA Program of the University of Minnesota.

Go now before the fire
scalds your name

What we cannot say
with words begins to smolder.

The cutting
is not to be feared as much
as the sowing.

the woods I walked. I went alone.
Though I was afraid, I pretended
not to be.