Every Boy, Every Blood
- Every Boy, Every Blood
Sometimes we worship with guns.Sometimes we need guns
to stand by us while we worship.At dawn we killed the killers
then we washed our hands.The clouds were like swimmers
dragging their arms across the sky.Our dreams reassemble.
Sometimes all the goats lie down.The fallow field, the shattered bridge,
each has its fragrant say.Within these equations there's
nothing we can't calculate:my broken fingers for your broken
fingers, this anguish for that faceten thousand rivers away. [End Page 171]
Lisa Olstein is the author of Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, and Lost Alphabet, named one of the nine best poetry books of 2009 by Library Journal. Cold Satellite, an album of songs based on her writing, was released by singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault in fall 2010. A new collection of poems, Little Stranger, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Centrum.
