Salem January IV
The sky opens
Blinking its single slackened eye.
It grumbly gets up.
Before shuttering again and whatever blue was there
Is gone.
It’s gone again.
What is there left to say about Marc Janssen? Maybe, his verse is scattered around the world in places like Pinyon, Orbis, Pure Slush, Cirque Journal, and Poetry Salzburg also in his book November Reconsidered. Janssen coordinates the Salem Poetry Project and keeps getting nominated for Oregon Poet Laureate.