Poem
Not to write like a hammer to a nail,
or a nail in the word. But to write
like the memory of the tree.
The tree remembering the rain.
To write the rain. To read the wood.
Sean Thomas Dougherty’s most recent books are Death Prefers the Minor Keys (BOA Editions) and The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things, winner of the 2021 Jacar Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown. He works as a long-term caregiver and Medtech in Erie, PA.
