By William Olsen

Featured Art: “Sleep to Dream” by Mateo Galvano

Walking away after watching over sleep, sleep having
   claimed my
father, sleep now having the face of my father,
having put on that face all of his life and now
sleep must know that he’ll fall beyond sleep,
father sleep seeming to want more from him,
father sleep will never be happy long,
father sleep that almost never withheld itself and when it
did he’d call us, and forget he ever called us,
he’d call us sixty times in one night
until we stopped answering.

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William Olsen is the author of six books of poetry, including TechnoRage (Triquarterly). His poetry has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and Breadloaf. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.