Unpaintable Landscape
the seething white men
of my dumb fucking childhood
raking leaves at dusk
Adam Tavel is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Rubble Square (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022). His recent poems appear in North American Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, The Massachusetts Review, Copper Nickel, and Western Humanities Review, among others. You can find him online at http://adamtavel.com/.