Jim Johnstone

Jim Johnstone’s most recent book is Dog Ear (Véhicule Press, 2014). He is the editor of The Essential Earle Birney (Porcupine’s Quill, 2014), and the poetry editor at Palimpsest Press.

Casca’s Beasts

The dancers move as if pursued
by Casca’s beasts – lions
leaving hesitation marks,
bruises remembered the way
we remember faces
on money, or smoke
that’s inhaled but isn’t free.
Everyone I’ve loved
loved me...