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TVBC
DAVID LEE GARRISON serves as Department
Chair and Professor of Spanish,
Portuguese, and Comparative Literature at Wright State
University. Garrison’s poetry, criticism,
and translations have appeared in such journals as Colorado
Review, Denver Quarterly, Modern Images, Kansas
Quarterly, The Literary Review, and The Nation.
His first book of poems, Inside the Sound of Rain, was
published by The Vincent Brothers Company in 1997, and his
translation of a book by Spanish poet Pedro Salinas,
Certain Chance, was published in 2000 by Bucknell UP.
Garrison lives in Dayton,
Ohio, with his wife, author Suzanne Kelly Garrison.
Night
Flight / David
Garrison
The ancients knew the sky
meant something, knew
that stars were made by
one light streaming through
patterned holes in a dome.
Bulls, bears, crabs, lions,
and scorpions led them home,
and in the blue of the heavens
they saw a blueprint of
another world above.
From the wings of twenty centuries,
we study human constellations:
scattered white imageries
on dark pages, conflagrations
of city lights that mean
nothing but themselves. We hear
our way with radar to what we’ve seen
through the eyes of Orion.
Spear
in hand, he watches
till he dies
earth’s broken mirror of the skies.
—TVBR Issue #13: Vol.
V, No. 3—Supernatural
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