DAN HOY

SALVATION 

I can’t even 

pretend 

I come from 

anywhere at all. 

True love 

destroys 

home worlds.

REVELATOR

When I say

everybody

is out of their minds

I mean everybody

is in their minds.

Our regime

is regime change.

My heart is a literal fist.

WONDER 

The past 

is a placeholder 

for what 

passes through us. 

I want you 

to have my face. 

Everything 

I think I am 

here just take it.

Dan Hoy's books include the novella Where the Sky Meets the Ocean and the Air Tastes Like Metal and the Birds Don't Make a Sound (Trnsfr Books, 2021, co-written with Mike Kleine), the poetic trilogy The Deathbed Editions (Octopus Books, 2016), and the poetry collections The Terraformers (Third Man Books, 2017) and Glory Hole (Mal-O-Mar Editions, 2009). He lives in Nashville.