Chris Bullard

Writing from the grave is a pleasure. 
Everything is monumental here. 

There was a single word on my lips 
when I expired. Now, novels 

scroll from my corpse. You are 
the central character of my fiction. 

I direct praise to you as a tree 
sends its roots into the soil. 

Transmission is difficult, 
but the purest line is never the line 

that is written. Whatever I hold 
back, that is yours, too.

 

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CHRIS BULLARD is a retired judge who lives in Philadelphia, PA. Grey Book Press published Continued, a poetry chapbook, in 2020 and Moonstone Press published Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife, a chapbook of environmentally themed poetry in 2021. Main Street Rag released his poetry chapbook, Florida Man, this year.