I uncover what I have touched, contaminated forever with touching, the America of it, the victory, beach sand affixed to the soft tissue of memory. So clear the heavy wind I can’t ever touch it, the home untouchable. A letter caught in vicious gust and flung 2,823 miles over an ocean is an uneasy document. […]
Ryan Clark
RYAN CLARK is a documentary poet who writes his poems using a unique method of homophonic translation. He is the author of Arizona SB 1070: An Act (Downstate Legacies) and How I Pitched the First Curve (Lit Fest Press), as well as the forthcoming chapbook Suppose / a Presence (Action, Spectacle). His poetry has appeared in such journals as DIAGRAM, Interim, SRPR, and The Offing. A former military brat, he now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his partner and cats.
