The Waiting

In a startling and original poetic voice, Megan Johnson in The Waiting reveals a vigilant young person who has suffered an unmentionable loss and who dismantles and reconstitutes lyric modes in a relentless search for solace. A lyric adventure of grief and search, The Waiting reinvents language from raw materials, driven by intense emotional need.

Megan Johnson was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the recipient of the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Verse, the Colorado Review, Epoch, Interim, and the Antioch Review, among other journals. She teaches at Victoria University in New Zealand. This is her first collection of poetry.

How it comes to pass	p. 3
Tradition, only the present	p. 4
Still life with weave	p. 5
Seasons (trying to align)	p. 6
Circumference	p. 7
Rocket grass	p. 8
A little/more	p. 9
Enter an empty flowerpot	p. 11
Stage left an umbrella	p. 12
Why not matter	p. 15
Why not bombard, all this heat	p. 16
Why not trivialize, surely we love the alphabet	p. 17
Why not forget we came here to get a good look	p. 18
Why not look it up when you don't know what it means	p. 19
Why not examine how time does not change much at all	p. 20
Love poem (tree minus limb and counting)	p. 21
I woke	p. 22
Finding way (an apple or the thunk)	p. 23
Through my chest, where were you	p. 25
I am inside this flag	p. 26
Rosary	p. 27
The waiting	p. 33
Getting ready for time	p. 51
Hand clap	p. 54
Wing for unaware	p. 55
Dialogue of sea	p. 57
Nocturne 1	p. 58
Nocturne 2	p. 59
Nocturne 3	p. 60
In the manner of dying	p. 61
Peephole	p. 64
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