Shane Lake was born in 1986 and raised in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. He received an MFA from Arizona State in 2012 and is a doctoral student in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston. Lake was a finalist in Narrative’s First and Third Annual Poetry Contests.

Two Poems

by Shane Lake

Out of the Biding and Dreamy and Victorious Dust

1.

There is a button on the camera that turns water to ice,

an ability most often attributed to winter.
Last one was especially heavy, froze
pickup truck doors shut and sagged
every tree branch left unbroken,
robbing the air of birch rustle.
People on couch
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