Quiver

Luke Johnson

Quiver
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Texas Review Press
Country
United States
Published
31 October 2023
Pages
126
ISBN
9781680033205

Quiver

Luke Johnson

Quiver is a book of reckoning, a book of ghosts, a book of lineal fracture and generational fatherlesness. It's a visceral guide through boyhood into fatherhood. One that yields witness to trauma, erotic shames, brutalities and toxic masculinity, and in so doing, emerges with a speaker beginning to free himself. Patricia Smith said it best: "Quiver will change the way you see." "floodghost" Mother couldn't manage what sated me, so she prayed: sought in silence a substance that'd soothe, something familial with grace. I groaned. Broke bodies over blacktop's pane, a bottom- less well of blood. At seven I smothered a frog and fed each leg to my quivering sister laughed while she choked out its skin. At twelve, I pulled a pistol from under the vacant shed and shoved its shudder to a schoolboy's temple, teased while he wept in his piss. And yet all along a Psalm, a satchel of prayer: song. Mother making contracts with the sky, while I tore its pages to light a fire, warm my hands around it. Radiant blue. Red from a faraway pine.

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