Day 20, Poet 20: Bryan Edenfield

Photo by Graham Isaac

XXXII (from Utopia series)

I am a girl
in a white field.

I am the son
of astronauts.

I am the mother and
sister moving mountains,
cutting moths.

I am father and
ghost from below
the Bodhi tree.


​Previously published in Fourth and Sycamore. 

Bryan Edenfield was born in Arizona but has lived in Seattle since 2007.  He was the founder and director of the small press and literary arts organization, Babel/Salvage.  He hosted and curated the Glossophonic Showcase and the Ogopogo Performance Series. His writing has most recently been published in Construction Magazine, Meekling Review, Dryland, and Plinth.  He is currently one of the Jack Straw Writers for 2018.

Here is his website: http://wordlessdictionary.wordpress.com