
Asking Why, Watching the Manta Ray Ballet at the Aquarium of the Americas
By Tobias Wray
“The stories we tell ourselves / leap and fall like fish into air, // back into the water—its quick / lip. Traffic happens by.”
Tobias Wray has worked as a poetry editor, literary festival organizer, and critic. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Bellingham Review, Third Coast, and in Autumn House Press’s Queer Nature Anthology. He directs the Creative Writing Programs at the University of Idaho.
By Tobias Wray
“The stories we tell ourselves / leap and fall like fish into air, // back into the water—its quick / lip. Traffic happens by.”