Bellingham Review Contributor
John Walser’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Spillway, Water-Stone Review, Plume, Posit and december magazine. His full-length manuscript Edgewood Orchard Galleries has been a finalist for the Autumn House Press Prize, the Ballard Spahr Prize and the Zone 3 Press Prize as well as a semifinalist for the Philip Levine Prize and the Crab Orchard Series First Book Award. A four-time semifinalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize, as well as a Best New Poets, a Pushcart and a Best of the Net nominee, John is a professor of English at Marian University and lives in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with his wife, Julie.
A shrug of limbs:gambrel symmetry:a hallway of parkway treesarch filling green middle of May thick:maple, elm, oak.But the ash borerand the city crews:whole blocks reducedto sap splinter chips.The crows black on the grey stainon the…