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.
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...