“Building a Fire”
“Staring at the flames of the woodstove fire / guarded by its glass door, I’m trying to remember / what I’m good at.”
December 16, 2019
“All You Shining Stars”
“Three kinds of hair in the brush one love / has left on the kitchen counter.”
December 16, 2019
“Passion”
“Your dog gnaws the rug you made love upon / for the last time.”
December 9, 2019
“Republic of Magpies”
“You’d think my brother’s last days / Move past me on every side.”
December 9, 2019
“American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin”
“A taste for meddling & mixed messaging, a taste for witches’ / Brews brewed by the motherfuckers who slew all the witches.”
December 2, 2019
“The Green Lake”
“Yesterday everything felt so hopeless / Now I have the energy to sit in the sun.”
December 2, 2019
“Sixty”
“We are from the border / like the sun that is born there.”
November 25, 2019
“To Burn Through Where You Are Not Yet”
“Those who take on risk are not those / Who bear it.”
November 25, 2019
Jim Limber in Heaven
Poems on a uniquely American life—and afterlife.
November 22, 2019