Do those patches of forest
untouched by man
ever get lonely or
lost inside themselves
with no notion of maps,
no one to ask for directions?
Snow-covered ground no one
ever sees can do anything it wants.
The sun will never know.
There is snow no one notices
and us, melting snowmen
trying to keep the pipes in our mouths
and the organic noses on our faces,
trying to hold it all in.

–Tom C. Hunley,
Scotch Tape World (2013)
Accents Publishing

Tom C. Hunley is an associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University and the director of Steel Toe Books. Among his previous books are The Poetry Gymnasium (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012); Annoyed Grunt (Imaginary Friend Press, 2012);Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2010, Gold Invitational Series); Octopus(Logan House, 2008, Winner of the Holland Prize); Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach(Multilingual Matters LTD., 2007, New Writing Viewpoints Series); My Life as a Minor Character (Pecan Grove, 2005, winner of a national chapbook contest); Still, There’s a Glimmer(WordTech Editions, 2004); and The Tongue (Wind Publications, 2004). He divides his time between Kansas and Oz.