• Michael J. Kolb is a poet and a professor of archaeology based in Colorado. He writes across disciplinary thresholds, exploring nature, memory, commemoration, and illness, asking what we carry, and what we leave behind. His work appears or is forthcoming in Third Wednesday, Sky Island Journal, Eunoia Review, Defenestration, Speckled Trout, and Moss Piglet among others. He is the author of Making Sense of Monuments (Routledge 2020).

Poetry

forgetting

spills like tidewaterover rockweedand black stoneetching absenceinto their edges. it salts the skin,wears through bone,ferries memories ashoreto settle in dune grass,half-buried,stirred... Read more.