Scarecrow

by Robert Fernandez

  and now and pulled

  back from the abyss

  and the silver

  clouds all come

  with coils like

  dog brains we

  still all

  —

  Travel

  we still all

  through,

  we still all

  lightly and

  through the night,

  through morning,

  again again again,

  array again, arrayed

  again, through

  mourning

  acknowledgments

  Some of these poems were originally published in Web Conjunctions and as part of the Poetry Foundation’s Poetrynow series. My thanks to the editors.

  Special thanks to Suzanna Tamminen for her support of this work.

  Thanks to Mary Hickman and Anthony Madrid for their careful readings of early drafts of these poems.

  This book would not have been possible without the efforts of Will Aviles, Blake Bronson-Bartlett, Julie Bower, Peter Gizzi, Mary Hickman, Joan James, Bill Jurma, Luke Marshall, Shaun Padgett, Robyn Schiff, Marguerite Tassi, and Nick Twemlow. My thanks to all.

  about the author

  Robert Fernandez is the author of the poetry collections We Are Pharaoh (2011) and Pink Reef (2013). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Conjunctions, The New Republic, Poetry, A Public Space, and elsewhere. He was selected as a New American Poet by the Poetry Society of America, and has received a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is cotranslator of Azure: Poems and Selections from the “Livre” (2015).

  An online reader’s companion is available at robertfernandezsite.wesleyan.edu.