Derek Graf
Derek Graf's poems have been featured in The Journal, Portland Review, Passages North, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from Oklahoma State University, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Kansas. He teaches in the English Department at Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City.
Work by this author
ECH(O)-TERRORIST (5)
O sleepless wives of Mount Sinai, do you fear your dangerous proximity to the sun? The last strip mall in Kansas closes down with little fanfare, and this October night’s unseasonal heat touches me deeply.
ECH(O)-TERRORIST (4)
Listen: nobody photographs the moss-smothered trees in the swamps of Florida, not when traffic’s gridlocked on the bridge and the tour of the Spanish monastery starts in an hour.
ECH(O)-TERRORIST (2)
The pistol shakes in the sheriff’s right hand when he hauls me in for trespassing. O father, I have never seen your face.
