Wake

By Megan Snyder-Camp Megan Snyder-Camp

The casseroles just showed up.

According to her sister a symbolic casting

of the feminine, not gender but physics, dear—

according to a friend she looked

just like her sister, green bathrobe mid-afternoon,

suitcase still in the trunk.

She’d carried him dead for days.

Out above the reeds a sphere of birds

stretches and knots, rises as one

brown then belly-white. Oh the hunger

when it came filled every chair.

Megan Snyder-Camp, “Wake” from The Forest of Sure Things. Copyright © 2010 by Megan Snyder-Camp. Reprinted by permission of Tupelo Press.

Source: The Forest of Sure Things (Tupelo Press, 2010)

Biography

Megan Snyder-Camp's first collection of poetry, The Forest of Sure Things, was published by Tupelo Press in August 2010. Poems of hers have appeared in the Antioch Review, Field, the Sonora Review, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of a 2010 Individual Artist grant from Washington's 4Culture Foundation as well as residencies/scholarships at Djerassi, Bread Loaf, and the Espy Foundation. She lives in Seattle with . . .

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