Spring/Summer 2016

        A Relative Tells Me of His Sexual Abuse

I tell him mine.
We eat ground.
The basement
shields us,
from the world,
both of us
saying that life
is about trying
to recover
from the dense
murders
of days.

Ron Riekki

Ron Riekki’s books include U.P.: a novel, The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, and Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,