Llanychaer Sonnet
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Day’s breviary where a smart breeze left iton a stone stoop, the badger’s night-stair.It is the Feast of Awnings & I am in debt again. [End Page 710] Debt’s walls pulse like an obscene heart.I repeat the Sun Canticle, which provokesneither desire nor madness. & here, at noon,the Procession of Breath, censed & cowled.I perform the exercise in which I am the pageturned by an invisible hand, & thenI wipe the blood away. It is not my blood.The antiphon is obscure, a trace the famishedgardener set aside for burning. We have beendisobedient. I, myself, have watchedthe lights reflected on those darker waters.
G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are a long poem, Testament (BOA Editions, 2015), and a chapbook, Susquehanna (Omnidawn, 2013). With Joshua Corey he edited The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta, 2012). His new collection, feast gently, is due out from Tupelo Press in 2018. He lives in Lewisburg, Pa., where he teaches at Bucknell University, edits the journal West Branch, and serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.
