Woundwondered, they circle
you: headless monument erosion had—
before they thought they knew you though did not—
claimed.
Thick fog hides shoulder-up your unhead, hides
your excellent circumscribed height beneath
which, chanting, unaware,
they wreath your senseless marble feet.
Final Poem for the Famous Poet
Phillip B. Williams
Phillip B. Williams is from Chicago. He is the author of the books Mutiny (Penguin 2021) and Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books 2016). Williams has received a 2017 Whiting Award and the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He currently teaches at Bennington College and is a member of the founding faculty for the Randolph College low-residency MFA program in creative writing.