A Walkable Rain

Merrill Gilfillan

POETRY
A Walkable Rain comprises five suites of short poems written from 2020 to 2022, harmonized by daily ambulation and casual contemplation.

DETAILS
May 2024
Edition of 100
36 pp. 8 x 5 in.
Hand-sewn chapbook with letterpress printed cover on Arches Text Wove. Laid-style interior papers.

Merrill Gilfillan has published over twenty books of poetry, essays, and fiction. Recent publications include Old River, New River (Red Dragonfly Press), and Stars Seen Then (Partly Press). Selected Poems will be published by Flood Editions in 2024. A native of Ohio, he now lives in Asheville, NC, after many years in the American West.

An Alibi

That morning of 10 March 2018
we arrived at the Yanacocha Tract,
worked the lower flowering ground
near the baños, then set off
up the old Inca road
angling the mountainside
with an exquisite pluperfect grade.
Up and around, two hours
at an easy pace. Then
the easterly overlook, the Prow.
We sat there with the woodstars,
the sapphirewings, the velvetbreasts . . .
till the sun went down.