Poet, critic, and publisher Rusty Morrison was a teacher for 19 years before earning her MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California. Known for her innovative use and re-use of form and line, Morrison is a co-publisher of Omnidawn Press.
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History of sleep
The ivy across our back fence tangles gray
into a green evening light.
How a second emptiness
un-punctuates the first.
Disloyal,
we attempt to construct.
An ache will tighten
but not form.
Making impossible
even this upsurge of crows across our sightline.
The Mayans invented zero so as not to...