If there’s nothing here
it’s probably mine
so take it with you
when you go walking

this morning.
I ain’t remembered yet

how willing I am to replace
this piece of past, how
three shots from a .22
can surround the heart.

–David Baratier

“This small book would make any subway ride a treat for 270 days until you start over.[…] as W.C. Williams said in “Asphodel That Greeny Flower” (paraphrased) it has all the news that people die miserably everyday for the lack of what is found there.”

-Grace Cavalieri,
Washington Independant Review of Books

David Baratier has seven chapbooks, mild superpowers, and a book of creative non-fiction In It What’s in It from Spuyten Duyvil. He is the editor of Pavement Saw Press.