poet in Merthyr
Tydfil, Wales, who
unpins his heart
from his sleeve
and presses it
between the pages
of his Deaths and
Entrances, unaware
that, at the same moment,
a young girl
in Casper, Wyoming,
becomes convinced
that the stars out
her bedroom window
on that late-August
night are pinpricks,
are marble eyes, firefolk or swift horses,
and that, god help us,
she must make it
her life to tell us so.
Wade lives, teaches, and writes in Salt Lake City. For a good time, he enjoys wandering the Wasatch Mountains and playing with his grandchildren.
His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Green Mountains Review,
Cimarron Review, Best New Poets, New Ohio Review, Western Humanities
Review, Rattle, Chicago Quarterly Review, Raleigh Review, Reunion: The
Dallas Review, Pembroke Magazine, and New Orleans Review, among others. A full-length collection of his poems, What Is Mine, was published by
Aldrich Press in January of 2015.