- Understory
New leaves find out
seams in the understory
Our child,
blackberry in her
We need words always
good, or so
a caddisfly flickers over
the falls’ thousands
Child, lead
to blank again in the presences [End Page 128]
Brandon Krieg is the author of Invasives (New Rivers Press, 2014) and a chapbook, Source to Mouth (New Michigan Press). His poems have appeared in Conjunctions, the Iowa Review, Antioch Review, and many other journals. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.