R.J. Lambert
Winner: The Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry Selected by Kaveh Akbar
Habits of creature My inner, my outer, my over & under. My thinner & fatter. My lightning, my thunder. My days & my nights & my mids & my noons. My suns, my stars, my phases of moons. My waters: my rivers & oceans & seas. My valley of deserts, my mountain of trees. My mother, my father, my sister, my killer. A thunder rolls over. A river of shivers. Abated at bottom, so long from the top. Some fruit on the floor. A bucket. A mop. The fog on the windows & prints