Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He cotranslated Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola and is the editor of To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill, as well as two poetry collections: Dismantling the Hills and Home Burial, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. He is the cofounder of Tavern Books, an independent publisher specializing in poetry in translation. McGriff lives in Austin, Texas.

Photograph by David Newkirk.

Relatives of the Dead

An iPoem

by Michael McGriff

The dead man’s suit coat

is a good fit through the shoulders.

The last thing he touched

is the first thing I touch,
the silky floral lining inside
the left sleeve.
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