A Poem by Jeff Lockwood

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Spring 2005 Issue	bear dream 3 deer in beds beside cut cedar I let the trap door slam bottles toppled but in a corner I swept black feathers into a pile ice lay shattered in the stairwell you sang to me in your mother's voice old-time songs (I've since forgotten) in the light of early evening snow fell lightly outside your window I saw in turn the jays and sparrows winter turned to summertime (and you were young like in Missoula in bed alone it wasn't ours you lit a cigarette and smiled pulled a sheet up to your breasts) crazy people searched the prairie whispered riddles laughing loudly a brilliant light shone through the window I called to you but you ignored me and tossed my book onto a shelf I heard small children in the hallway three were singing one was crying a rose lay wilted on the dresser a giveaway but faked and spiteful you drew a bath the cellar flooded but from the pantry you saved canned peaches and in black feathers vermin scattered a cruel deception I watched and waited you returned alone but in anger scoffed tradition and blamed me for the cold wet winter.
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The poetry of Jeff Lockwood has appeared in The FifthStreet Review (where he was a featured artist), Tiferet, A Journal of Spiritual Literature, the Kennesaw Review, Tribal Fires Journal, Bitter Oleander Press (forthcoming), March Street Press (a book-length manuscript of poems and prose poems, forthcoming), SNReview (Summer 2004), and other creative and academic publications. He’s received numerous academic awards, including the Fulbright, and he's a Sequoyah Fellow. Lockwood makes his home in the Cabinet Mountains of Montana, but still calls his birthplace, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, home. This winter/spring he’ll spend some four months in Jamaica, where he plans to write one publishable poem. Lockwood is of Chippewa ancestry. He recently completed the MFA-Writing program at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.

Copyright 2005, Jeff Lockwood. This work is protected under the U.S. copyright laws. It may not be reproduced, reprinted, reused, or altered without the expressed written permission of the author.