The Lightning Field

by Geoff Munsterman

Whatever happens to this brimming world,
this weather a spring coiling in our backs
sharp with toys, sharper horizons, you can find

my severed head on a rust-color stalk, mouth
open, singing soil and mineral and core.

Geoff Munsterman hails from Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. In 2006, he won the John Crowe Ransom Prize for poetry at Kenyon College. Geoff is good at keeping secrets and lives in Portland, Oregon.