PICKPOCKETING

One year ago I was on a train from D.C. to Atlanta, leafing through the poems that would become American Barricade in March 2014. I can’t remember if I read “My Life in Absentia,” but here we are one year later and Verse Daily features the poem after reading the book. It’s one of the first poems I ever published, in a journal they call Tin House, and to date this is the first time it’s ever appeared online. Time is one slinky ferret, let me attest.