
Commercial Fisherman
“The rest is personal packing to keep my insides from falling out, / wrapped around the thing that makes no sense. Duncan’s body, / or what was left of it, washed up in a tide pool.”
Craig Brandis lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon and studies poetry at the Attic Institute for Literary Arts in Portland. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Red River Review, New Verse News, Plume, Alba and elsewhere. He has been a contributing poet at Breadloaf. He also does online volunteer work teaching children (and an interested parent) how to write poetry.
“The rest is personal packing to keep my insides from falling out, / wrapped around the thing that makes no sense. Duncan’s body, / or what was left of it, washed up in a tide pool.”