Jeffrey Skinner is the author of Glaciology, winner of the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition (2013), and the recipient of a literature award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters (2015). With his wife he cofounded Sarabande Books, a publisher of short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dinghy

by Jeffrey Skinner
I love & hate the father’s rust
Dust mote drifting sideways
Vita brevis, source of all not enough
Light leaked from stopped time
People on couch
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