Peter Gizzi’s collections of poetry include Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart and Periplum and Other Poems. His new collection, The Outernationale, will be published this spring.
The 6 a.m. January encaustic clouds are built in a waxy gray putty whizzing by with spots of luminous silvery crack-o’-the-world light coming through, an eerie end-o’-the-world feeling yet reassuring like an old movie. Do I really have to go out there? Now a hint of muted salmon tones breaking a warmish band of welcoming pinkish light. Is it like this every morning? My...
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