Goodbye Town

TIMOTHY O'KEEFE received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Utah. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, Pleiades, an

• Candle • And Styx Was a Children’s Book • Broken Sonnet: Dinner Bell • Birth Certificate: A. F. Little • Broken Sonnet: The Letting • Simmer • Love • Meditation in Red, Blue, and Violet • Poem in a Book That Was Never Opened • Broken Sonnet: Covenants • If Aeneas • Little Arithmetic • Broken Sonnet: It’s a Wonderful Life • Alban • Broken Sonnet: Girlfriend • Little Understanding • If Scylla • Little’s Unforgetting, Part 1 • An Absolute Motion, Now We Are Going • Broken Sonnet: Condensation • If Sirens • Broken Sonnet: Lost Epilogue • The Outlying Counties and Then Some • Little Crow • Elegy in Late Spring • Little’s Unforgetting, Part 2 • If Palinurus • Now Means They Once Were Otherwise • Obituary Penciled on a Piece of Drywall Along Highway 55 • Broken Sonnet: Our Own Rumpelstiltskin • The Figurine Is Tipped Over • The Corner of She and He • Broken Sonnet: It Begins in Black and White • Star, Toboggan • Why I’m Not Photogenic • Broken Sonnet: Grief • Figures from a Clairvoyant Time • Broken Sonnet: It Ends in Black and White • Poem with Contrails • Broken Sonnet: Postpartum • Another Thing That Flies • Broken Sonnet: If Dido • The Water and Web Variations • Little’s Unforgetting, Part 3 (A Lynching) • Little’s First Symptom (The Clawfoot Poem) • Elegy, Aphasia • Eye/Ear • Little’s Second Symptom • Another Legend to Tuck Us In • When We Saw Always & Sudden • Little Nocturne • Poem in the Key of Luminarias • Little’s Third Symptom • Self-Portrait Against Myself • Broken Sonnet: Diagram in the Fire • Acknowledgments