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Hunter Gagnon |
Hunter Gagnon grew up in Maine and graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He then served two terms with AmeriCorps NCCC. Now he lives in Fort Bragg, where he works with State Parks, writes fiction and poetry, and enjoys frequent hiking and mountain biking excursions. He joined Poets in the Schools in 2018.
Incantation to the Spirit
of the Void and His Enemies
the ending dark slaps us down
cold heads press against dark glass
cold dark glass fades into form
head and chest form one slump line
low blue dunes beyond the marsh
empty scrambled dunes at dark
dogs and bells in frozen mist
stars are slow and teal and green
trembling lights in muskrat trails
soft blue light in marshsunk void
rainplink feet behind the wall
moonwashed plates and silver bowls
fireburst hands are nighttime lead
breath puffs slow in foamy dark
but beyond lead and thick dark
hot spheres and long confusion
there are great dark treefingers
starblast cupped worshipping hands
almost real, sometimes shaking
Dream from Portsmouth
Dream goes: stars, path of black dust, night time mountains
mountains black, zoomed out to rising cleavers, there I am
walking in, high chipped knives
my dad is through the pass, which is the chip in the knife
the mountain blade black, it is night time, stars blue
faded down to the hidden sun, weighed down to the pass
yellow of birth and hearts, weighed down,
by night time, my dad is there, through the pass
the star-blocking conjoinment, he has a lantern
a fire, my dad is there, I do not, he has history
I do not, me being okay, is there
through the pass, I see myself knowing this
zoomed out, then I'm in the vines, ivy
tripping, wild, in the dark off, off that trail
and I see it tilts off, the glow, the opening
Wake up: machine sounds, machine sounds dumping
window heat rippling, salt pile, swallowing
leaf shadows scuttling, over flat, over hard,
over hard wide waking brick
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