Miller Williams

• Buy How Language Is Lost directly from the author.
• Buy it from Emrys Press.
• Find it on the shelves at Barnhill's in Winston-Salem, NC, and at the Raleigh Review in Raleigh, NC.

"I loved him for his love of broken things— / the handleless hoes and axes, the sprung / rumble seat bought years ago / at auction, the legless chairs / retrieved from garbage heaps, / that truck each day he reinvented. / Like the rivers of Heraclitus. Like Van Gogh’s / olive trees and irises that quiver, / still. Bristle. As if caught forever / in the antique instant of their opening. / It’s why we love Jesus, some philosopher / once said, instead of God. Why lovers / love the moon that’s always falling."

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