Bellingham Review Contributor
Jory Mickelson’s first book, Wilderness//Kingdom, was winner of a 2020 High Plains Book Award. Their second book All This Divide (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and third book, Picturing (End of the Line Press), are forthcoming in 2024. Other publications include Court Green, Poetry Northwest, DIAGRAM, Jubilat, Terrain.org, and The Rumpus. They are the recipient fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, The Desert Rat Writers Residency, Dear Butte, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. They live and write in the Pacific Northwest. To learn more about their work, visit www.jorymickelson.com.
Let my father bea man who loved me poorly which means he loved me.Some stories we tell ourselves when we need to sleep and some we tell whenwe need to stay awake. Both of them…