Cal Freeman
Two Poems
Sepulchral Epigram for Fanny Howe
The poems she wrote
wrote other versions
of themselves. Her genesis
story involved
an ice shanty in a whiteout
on Lake Erie.
Playwrights mined her
language for their
characters’ wobbly prayers.
Sepulchral Epigram for Lyn Hejinian
There’s no such thing
as a non-sequitur.
Is Lola a heteronym
or a persona?
She was a munificent plant
inhabited by a ghost (is),
a boustrophedon
of inscrutable ink.
Cal Freeman is the author of the books Fight Songs, Poolside at the Dearborn Inn, and The Weather of Our Names. His writing has appeared in many journals including Berkeley Poetry Review, The Glacier, North American Review, and Oxford American. Born and raised in Detroit, he lives in Dearborn, MI and teaches at Oakland University.
Instagram: @johnfreeman5982