Witness Effect
Dan Beachy-Quick
the fearcast predicts snow, fore-
ground's tense bullying drifts
that drift cloud-like drift in
dust-like swirls on the road
*
it wears a mask it won't take off
the field follows the field it follows
what is fallow what is a blanket of—
so deep the broken can't break through
*
& all these thoughts thought when
thought if thought what if
thought is true love these thoughts
behind the window-frame framed
*
epic journey there is none only this
journal entry hastily done, blister
on the burned finger's tip, gathering
fountain into which strange waters run
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Dan Beachy-Quick is the author most recently of This Nest, Swift Passerine and A Whaler's Dictionary. A new chapbook is out from Spork Press titled Overtakelessness. He teaches in the MFA Program at Colorado State University.