Allan Peterson

PHASE TRANSITION

The house will be there bruised by dusk

a moon added for realism

Particles will pass through me fractions of light

songs through me pictures from space

though I sit quietly by the window

watching sharp-shins scatter the nuthatches

waiting for night to pick up the dark jacket

it threw against the hills

A visual artist and poet, Allan Peterson’s most recent book is This Luminous, New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Other titles include Precarious; All the Lavish in Common (Juniper Prize); and Fragile Acts, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Visit him at www.allanpeterson.net.