Pillbug safety in the ohel of metal.
My armor, my chisel

Under a stone…lead
ions crystallize in my gut
Crimp into myself, head-

first in a whorl of dirt.
Conglobate, ventricle, dorsal

Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the
Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber
First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear
Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022) which won the 2022
National Jewish Book award. He runs a manuscript consultation service at
www.seansingerpoetry.com