Joel Keith



Tell Me Like You Mean It 8

When commissioning for this edition of Tell Me Like You Mean It, I gave one prompt to contributors: “Go bonkers! (If you want! So fine if not!)”

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To Stella

My hair falls, some days, like an uninteresting question. I take my coffee to sit in the green chair by the window and gather into the soul, slow- ly, certain shards of light too small to note. O my life, …

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He/Hymn

After Donne All morning I have held these ends of me like frayed laces I have tried, failed to thread—laid finally, as the sea does its dead, down. Now I lie in bed. Christ’s blood, I’ve read, hath might by …

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