- Summering (II)
Bowl of the undiscloseduniverse before usin which sparrows descendthe raked amphitheaterto the riverbank, one by one,or in slanting patterns, sparrowscrisscrossing sparrowfeathered vector ofunidentical identitiesagainst the rising sun,the sum ofour understandingfleeing water, word. [End Page 97]
Michael Joyce's fourteen books—most recently Light in Its Commonplace (Broadstone, 2020)—span a career as novelist, poet, critic, theorist, digital literature pioneer, and multimedia artist. He lives along the Hudson River.