Brandon Rushton’s poems appear in Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Bennington Review, CutBank, Sonora Review, and Passages North among other journals. In 2016 he was the winner of both the Gulf Coast Prize and the Ninth Letter Award for Poetry. In 2017 he served as the Theodore Roethke Fellow at the Marshall Fredericks Museum. Born and raised in Michigan, he now lives and writes in Charleston, South Carolina, and teaches writing at the College of Charleston.
Ellenm1, ice formations, Barton Dam, Michigan / Flickr
Dismissed from some other duty
the drawbridge attendant questions
the stability of days. As in: how long
until what we’ve been holding on to…