We’ve come to think of life here
as one elongating season
marked with a tap-and-die sky,
a fistful of birds tossed
against the rag light.
Gray Morning
Michael McGriff
Michael McGriff is the author of four books of poetry, Eternal Sentences, Early Hour, Home Burial, and Dismantling the Hills. His other books include a translation of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola, an edition of David Wevill’s essential writing, To Build My Shadow a Fire, and the story collection Our Secret Life in the Movies. He codirects the MFA program at the University of Idaho.