Richard St. John’s newest poetry collection, Book of Entangled Souls, was recently published by Broadstone Books. He is also the author of The Pure Inconstancy of Grace (published by Truman State University Press, in 2005, as first runner-up for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry), Each Perfected Name(Truman State University Press, 2015), and Shrine (a long poem released as a chapbook, 2011). Rick is an active member of the Community of Reconciliation Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit his website: richardstjohnpoet.com.
The week you died, the Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine through gauzy snow like this. Your brothers joked that Putin waited to invade till you were gone.
