Ed Skoog is the author of three poetry collections, Mister Skylight, Rough Day, and Run the Red Lights (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). His many awards include the poetry prize from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Two Poems

by Ed Skoog


Showering at Night

The night shower is a personal

pan-blizzard, a folklore-free zone,
the rainiest forest for the most
casual bigfoot. To shower at night
is to have been selected, to hang
a retrospective. It is not in the American
character. It is the rarest hand.
Showering at night is short fiction,
a history bulletin, a guidebook
to invisible reservoirs of this region.
People on couch
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