David Radavich
There’s a thread
that must lead
out of here.
Away from the beast,
unspooling time
backwards,
a woman
at the heart
and mind
of it
saving history
for itself.
How green
every corner is
turning
and turning
like gowns
or clocks
then finally
clear,
worth plunging
into air.
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David Radavich’s latest narrative collection, America Abroad: An Epic of Discovery (2019) is a companion to his earlier America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (2007). Recent lyric collections are Middle-East Mezze (2011) and The Countries We Live In (2014). His plays have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe.