Immersion Data
and teams deployed to dye-test the lakes’
high-water marks
and dye the egrets’ legs and egrets’ necks
the color of the sky
to say we lost them in migration or in
migration films;
and teams to document
the language camps, and the children
in costumes
which would not catch
on machines, in foreign factories;
or to document the children
not drowning to the calling
of their Christian names;
and teams crossing each lake
to use the islands
as memorials
of the mainland;
Christopher Bolin’s first book, Ascension Theory, was a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award finalist, and his next book is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press, in 2018. He has published poems in jubilat, Conduit, Post Road, Lana Turner, Hyperallergic, and other journals, and has held fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the James A. Michener Foundation, and the University of Iowa. Christopher teaches at the College of St. Benedict / St. John’s University, in Minnesota.