02/08/2012

On cloudy days we visited
the moldering graves of old
gods. It was easy to pity
their empty vases till
we remembered the storms
they made.

BIO:

Adam Tavel's first poetry collection, The Fawn Abyss, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. A former Cellpoems contributor and the recipient of the 2010 Robert Frost Award, Tavel's recent poems appear or will soon appear in Indiana Review, Redivider, Phoebe, The Minnesota Review, and The Los Angeles Review, among others.
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