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  • Older Testaments
  • John Sibley Williams (bio)

Before stone saviors with eyes fixed on the stars

Before family names fastened and peeled from the chests of animals

Before apparitions and order metaphor and belief

Before the good and its harvest of evil divided into two piles within a single human palm

there was simply walking without destination or escape

and so many nameless things below each step that to tread was to crush what itself had already vanquished mountains and is still now expecting without judgment the full weight of your body upon it [End Page 12]

John Sibley Williams

John Sibley Williams is the author of six chapbooks, winner of the HEART Poetry Award, and finalist for the Pushcart, Rumi, and The Pinch Poetry Prizes. He has served as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press and publicist for various presses and authors, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Book Publishing. A few previous publishing credits include: Inkwell, Bryant Literary Review, The Chaffin Journal, The Evansville Review, RHINO, Rosebud, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, and various fiction and poetry anthologies.

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