Untelling

CANEBRAKE

Gabriel Dunsmith

Walking out to the barns to be alone, 
I spotted a flash of crimson as a fox 
gamboled out of a wood, 
across a field, and into a deeper wood. 

I knew then I would need to die, 
and die a thousand times.

Gabriel Dunsmith grew up in Asheville, NC, and lives in Reykjavík, Iceland. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Tikkun, Lake Effect, Hunger Mountain, On the Seawall, and Appalachian Review. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize finalist.

ISSUE 2 | WINTER 2024

Cover photography by Sarah Josephine Pennington