“Night Vision” by J. C. Todd (Poetry ’90)
Poetry alum J.C. Todd’s poem, “Night Vision” was featured in Pedestal Magazine.
Read an excerpt below.
Night Vision
after Käthe Kollwitz, preliminary sketch for Schlacterfeld / Battlefield,
sheet 6, Bauernkrieg / Peasant War, etching, 1903
It’s their first night dead,
ripening where they dropped
across crop rows of rye.
You sketch their bodies
with black crayon
on a common stock of paper.
Read the rest of the poem here: Night Vision.
