Three new poems

I have a trio of new poems in Great Lakes Review. 

The first of the three poems, “Pantoum of the divine absence” is derived from another poem (still unpublished at this time) which, having eight lines was a good candidate for being transformed into a pantoum, a form in which the lines of the poem are shuffled and repeated in a serpentine form.

The second poem, “Call me Jocasta” is an allusion to the mythical queen of Thebes and the third, “They grieve” is a meditation on being on the outside of someone else’s grief.