Fit Under Here

I remember a ship

Dammit, I meant all along
I should take that other child

presently care is a hat

a father looking out the window

time's just a driveway,
the parrot said, staring into
the thudding fog

and the future is a salesman
with his name tag flying in a void

 

 

David Dodd Lee is the author of four full-length books of poems, Downsides of Fish Culture (New Issues Press, 1997), Arrow Pointing North (Four Way Books, 2002), Abrupt Rural (New Issues Press, 2004), The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books, 2010), and a chapbook , Wilderness (March Street Press, 2000).  He has two new books forthcoming: Orphan, Indiana (University of Akron Press, 2010) and The Coldest Winter on Earth (Marick Press, 2011). He has published poetry and fiction in literary journals and magazines including Field, Denver Quarterly, Nerve, Jacket, Interim, Court Green, Green Mountains Review, Crowd, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Sycamore Review, Mississippi Review, The Laurel Review, The Hat, Shampoo, POOL, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, and American Literary Review.

Lee was the editor of SHADE, an anthology published by Four Way Books in 2004 and 2006, as well as a former poetry editor at Passages North and poetry editor for Third Coast. In addition he has guest edited recent editions of The Laurel Review (where he remains an active contributing editor) and Passages North. He is also the editor of The Other Life, The Selected Poems of Herbert Scott (Carnegie Mellon, 2010). Together with Donna Munro, he published Half Moon Bay poetry chapbooks, which included titles by Franz Wright and Hugh Seidman, among others. Lee earned a degree in Painting and Art History in 1986 and a MFA in Creative Writing in 1993 (while working as a park ranger) both from Western Michigan University. He sometimes makes his living as a freelance editor.  He is currently a professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University at South Bend and lives in South Bend, Indiana, where he also continues to make visual art.  The working title of his latest book of poems is URGE. He maintains a blog at seventeenfingeredpoetrybird.blogspot.com.