Judith Skillman
Judith Skillman’s new books are Premise of Light (Tebot Bach, 2018) and Came Home to Winter (Deerbrook Editions, 2019). She has received grants from Artist Trust and the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Poetry, Cimarron Review, and other journals. You can find her work at www.judithskillman.com.
As the Mexican Train
Continues at a dog-trot each day going north —Jack Gilbert How praiseworthy, to be a train full of people with dark eyes, hands holding baskets and visors, soot in the nail beds, all these bodies sitting erect, and the few who stand due to a lack of seats. Even the seats, stained and worn, have […]