My father’s father is preaching, one palm raised, the book he believed was the language of creation held reverently in his hand the way one cradles a dying thing close, those long fingers that could sunder the small, hardened brain of a walnut to soft meat caressing its leather. Did he hold my wailing head […]
Gus Peterson
Gus Peterson lives and writes in Maine. Work has appeared online with Rattle’s Poets Respond Series, Black Nore Review, Bracken, Panoply, Rust + Moth, and Hole in the Head Review. He serves on the board of the Maine Poets Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing poetry to all Maine residents.