Alumni Patrick Donnelly’s poem “Cradle Song,” featured today on Poetry Daily:

CRADLE-SONG

When I signed for her ashes

I received her, as once

            she received me

into her lyric hold

            and let me ride anchor there,

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“Cradle Song” is from Patrick’s recently published collection Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (2012, Four Way Books).