Poetry
Sign
Graphically little separates
short from snort.
A stem.
Archaic rain;
speaking of which
do you speak
sign?
Then put your hands out,
feel the clouds.
Giles Goodland
Giles Goodland's books include Of Discourse (Grand Iota 2023), A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001), Capital (Salt, 2006), Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and The Masses (Shearsman, 2018). Civil Twilight was published by Parlor Press in 2022. He has worked as a lexicographer, editor, and bookseller, and teaches evening classes on poetry for Oxford University's department of continuing education, and lives in West London.