Reed Wilson

Reed Wilson’s poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Natural Bridge, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere, and he has reviewed books for Poetry International, The Chattahoochee Review, and The Summerset Review. His collection, Orpheum, is forthcoming in February, 2020 from Word Poetry.

Content by Reed Wilson

Statue of a female form leaning against a cement stand

Poetry,

Offerings

BY Reed Wilson

My son’s hands hid his face,
and his narrow shoulders shook
with sobbing. He had no metaphysics

yet, so the pastor’s voice bleated
senselessly over the grave
of his grandmother