Author: J.D. Schraffenberger
J.D. Schraffenberger is an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa and the assistant editor of the North American Review. His book of poems, Saint Joe’s Passion, was recently published by Etruscan Press.
In the Beginning
Observe what has happened, what we’ve been up to ever since, what we’d like to believe. Observe the long unconstellated sky, how it darkens at the edges, like old scrolls, parallax. Observe the papering of all our greater walls, the bronchial, the aortal, the cerebral and pyloric, our innocent faces painted gray to suit the …