appealing

The Maynard
Spring 2018

Derek Thomas Dew

Confluence

A dusty grand piano falls out a two-story window into a water fountain below.

My father threw orange peels at coyotes in the dusk.

Red rocks. Mast passes slow behind shafts of river cane.

Walter, the first time you scratched my shoulder is in the desert.

Where the rock swallows the river, viscacha meat.

A chimney for the first time. Letters in erupting kilns.

The man walking the valley knows the pickaxe nightpale music.

They fought Apache for that hill so we could live and perfume the doorways.

They probably don’t have a word for piano in their language anyway.

Little orange peels are not meteors. They dry like armies into hymns.