(Joseph Massey)
Joseph Massey was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, and has lived in Humboldt County, California, for the last eight years. His first full-length collection, Areas of Fog, will be published by Shearsman Books in May of 2009.
Hibernaculum
Hail on the roof
repeats, repeats
in and out of sleep,
winter's rough
translation
of itself
and a dream's
drowsy
disassembly.
The rubble
I recover
into song.