Iris Jamahl Dunkle was the 2017-2018 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, CA. Interrupted Geographies, published by Trio House Press, is her third collection of poetry. It was featured as the Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for July 2017. Her other books include: Gold Passage(2013) and There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air (2015).Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College and is the Poetry Director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.
I like to believe the river would speak / like a silver assassin.
Perhaps the river, if it wanted to speak would be deep-voiced, gravel drawled. Perhaps it would be forgiving as the low fog that scarves the valley redwoods. Our discretions mutter – light rain whispering leaves. How we gathered, scraped, took and re-routed gravel to cover our driveways and roads. Gravel that was once rough gutted […]
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